The table below details the audio playback bandwidth requirements to transport audio under each of the selected formats.
Audio format |
Network bandwidth requirement |
---|---|
44.1 KHz, 16bit stereo |
176 KB/s |
32 KHz, 16bit stereo, |
128KB/s |
48 KHz, 16bit stereo |
192KB/s |
In practice, the bandwidth used when an audio device connects to a target is higher due to the keyboard and video data consumed when opening and using an audio application on the target.
A general recommendation is to have at least a 1.5MB connection before running audio/video.
However, high video-content, full-color connections using high-target screen resolutions consume much more bandwidth and impact the quality of the audio considerably.
To help mitigate quality degeneration, there are a number of recommended client settings that reduce the impact of video on audio quality at lower bandwidths:
Under Connection Properties, set the color depth to as low a value as possible. Reducing the color depth to 8 bit color considerably reduces the bandwidth consumed