DStv had 900,000 concurrent streaming viewers during World Cup opener

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DStv breaks its live streaming record in South Africa

DStv Stream recorded more than 900,000 concurrent viewers during Bafana Bafana’s FIFA World Cup 2026 opener against Mexico on Thursday, the pay-TV broadcaster said.

The broadcaster said the match set a new live-sport streaming record for its platform, nearly doubling its previous peak of close to 500,000 viewers.
 
Impossible, according to the Apple Acolyte he who shall be named, it's to pixelated to watch
 
Jan said:
I had two hitches during the match last night, and the quality dropped for a minute or two during the half-time commentary.

Smooth sailing otherwise.
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900k for SA, is impressive did have a friend say his dropped. But we literally haven't had any power and think it was more related to the fibre line issues.
 
Jan said:
I had two hitches during the match last night, and the quality dropped for a minute or two during the half-time commentary.

Smooth sailing otherwise.
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Every 30 - 40 seconds, for the first 8-9 minutes of the game, was a "Whoops" moment - good after that.
 
DSTV also added SuperSport Africa 2 to the Access packages for those that care.

They are showing the world cup of darts on this package which is a first to see.
 

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system32 said:
Not sure what's so special about 900,000.
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It's the fact that they handled it (mostly) - the service has been poor for years and couldn't handle 20 grannies jumping on-board to watch their soapies. Whatever else can be said about them, Canal+ shows some promise.
 
system32 said:
Not sure what's so special about 900,000.

Can be done with 1 server:
How Nginx Handles 1M Concurrent Connections on a Single Server without breaking a sweat:​
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Video is slightly different than an API server.

900K concurrent streams will be at least 5Tbps on the network.
The match would easily be 5PB of data for the 2 ish hours of the game and leadup.

Streaming sport is very hard on the network and servers. The worst is it usually goes from say 200Gbps of soapy streaming to suddenly 5000Gbps all in 15-20 minutes.
 
cavedog said:
DSTV also added SuperSport Africa 2 to the Access packages for those that care.

They are showing the world cup of darts on this package which is a first to see.
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Are you subscribed in SA? If so SS Africa 2 is likely a mistake as it's not offered here at all - has some higher packages stuff but nothing unique or Premium unfortunately.

The darts was on SA's SuperSport Variety 3 as well. Now just waiting to see if we'll get any snooker.
 
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