I finally got the chance to try remote from my in-laws.  I have Comcast and 35/5 speeds at my house.  They have Fios and 10/3 speeds.  Both the iPhone and iPad stayed below 1000 Kbps over wifi from there house so I am guessing there is a remote cap of 1000.

I definitely have a theory on the iPad on a local network.  The behavior was VERY similar when I was remote.  I think the app or the Flow thinks the iPad is remote and when it realizes that it isn't (after the 15 minutes or so), it kicks up to the awesome 3000+ Kbps speeds.

For the record, I let the iPad and iPhone both run remote for an hour at separate times (so there was no increase after 15 min or anything like that).

Can anyone from the support team chime in on this?  The remote cap doesn't seem necessary and there is definitely something up with the iPad/app.

gifty74: did you try the 15 min test on your iPad at home to see if it spikes up?

Ok, so I did some more testing this morning before work.  Fired up the ipad app and right away started jumping up to the 3,500+ range.  Closed the app and opened it two more times before I hit the 1,000Kbps cap.  Like I said above, it looks to me like if it starts to struggle with the feed and keeping a steady stream, it will show "Buffering" in the upper left.  If it drops too many frames (there must be a threshold for this somewhere in the app or firmware on the box) it switches over to the low res feed.  On the ipad I can actually see a very slight flicker and then things turn just slightly fuzzy.  It will start out on the high res but then switches over if it struggles to stream for a few seconds.  I did let it continue and it was right around the 10 minute mark where it kicked back over to the high res feed and continued on fine from there.  I'm going to continue testing.  Hopefully they come out with an update to the app that resolves this issue. 

Ok, so I think I've figured this one out.  I dug into the setup files in the Monsoon directory on my PC, the ones the setup program installs on the local computer and sends to the Flow giving it streaming instructions, etc, when you run the setup program.  In those files I found the settings that I think are responsible for controlling the behavior of the streaming, and what is called "(VFR_Threshold)".  It says in this setup file that VFR_Threshhold has settings of 0-4, and control "Sensitivity of the framerate switching process."  It seems this controls when it switches from high to low res.  The stock setting is 0.  I changed that from 0 to 2, so it's less sensitive.  Did testing out the wazoo last night, and it acts the same and starts to studder during the streaming process right when it connects, but with this lower sensitivity it gives it more time to get a good stream going, and has not yet kicked down to the low res.  I tried it a bunch this morning too.  I think this might have solved the issue.

Well, I never posted back but after testing it a few days it reverted back just like what you are seeing.  Something is going on and seems to be a bug that hopefully they are going to fix in the next ipad app update, or firmware.  I suspect it's a firmware issue.

I tried changing several of those settings, including the VFR Mode to 0 or "no", but that didn't do the trick either. 

Pretty bummed because I use the app all the time.  It works great the whole night after rebooting the Flow, but after a day or two it's back to switching to a lower bit rate.  I sent a request into support to ask if this is a known issue and have not gotten a response yet.  I'm testing more settings now and will post if I find any earth shattering news.

Nothing yet.  I've emailed tech support direct and they don't seem to answer my direct questions on it.  I'm thinking most likely it's a known bug and they will hopefully fix with the next firmware update.  Seems like it's the box doing it, not the app.  I've changed all of the config files I've found to prevent it from switching resolutions, but nothing worked.  Like you, the first time after rebooting the box, all is great.  But, after suspending the app and re opening it's back to the 1,000kbps cap.  At 4,000 (which is where it usually tops out) it looks so awesome.  Just want it to be there all the time.  Glad to see you're seeing the same thing on an Airport router.  My Netgear is a good dual band router, but though it might be something in the router…possibly.  I wish Monsoon support would monitor the forum and comment like "Yes, this is a known issue that we've repeated in our lab, update coming soon" or something like that.  We don't really know much other than what we can reproduce by doing our own testing.  Let's stay in touch and hopefully we can push for a resolution.  Thanks.

Hmm, very interesting mgorsk02.  So no matter what you do you can't get it to revert back to the cap?  I just sold my ipad 2 for a 3, but haven't purchased it yet.  My 2 was a wifi only 64gb model, so there goes the theory that it was the cellular circuitry or antenna or something.  My wifi was doing it too.  Well, nothing left to do but go buy a 3!  I'll report back by the weekend with my findings.  I too use mine up at my in-laws and parents' house and I also get the 1,000kbps cap while out and about.  I wish though that there was some rhyme or reason to those config files because it would be nice to raise that limit if the upload supports it.  My father connects to my Flow all the time from his laptop, and comcast recently up'd my upload to 6Mpbs.  He said there was a noticeable difference after they increased it.  He get close to 2,500kpbs on the PC player remote.  Has to be a way to increase that on the ipad too.  Let's try to figure it out as no one from tech support seems to be monitoring or giving us any advice.