Where did you read the change to the minimum upload speed? What's strange to me is that my bandwidth has not changed with AT&T. I have about 350 - 375 up and have been able to stream out and down to my iphone via 3G with ZERO stutters after the first 10 seconds or so...even worked via E....and I never had to change the iPhone app to SQ from HQ...stayed on HQ all the time. No problems. Now, I did get a new DSL modem and a new Wireless router but my upload is consistently 350 - 375 and my download is 5.8 down. So, did Dish/Sling change their app on my iphone so that my old upload is no longer sufficient or has something changed that makes a diffference on my end? keep in mind I have no issues connecting, starting, optimizing the sling as the app starts. Also, via WIFI on premises I get very consistent video and audio. But when using 3G I get stutters ever 20 seconds....audio with no video sometimes.....might work occasionally for 1 min with no issue. Via WIFI no issues. Also I noticed that when using via 3G and getting the issues I talked about I get about anywhere from 400 kbps (as seen in the app on the iphone via 3G) but occasionally I'll see that drop to like 96. Is AT&T doing something to limit sling? Why would that change so much?
For hardware I have a netopia 2241n-006 dsl modem and a netgear wireless router model N150. I have my DSL ethernet plugged into a regular LAN port on the router (not using uplink). I tried using the DSL as bridged to the Netgear but saw the same problems. I've turned off every single firewall or secure thing on the router and nothing helps, including turning on QoS and even setting a rule in it to give my DVR highest priority via MAC address. I am exhausted from this....starting to think Sling changed the app somehow to require more bandwidth or something.