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Twitch seems impossible to watch. I even get buffering on 480p. This on the 100/100 mbps speeds. Lets not even try and stream ourselves, thats just as impossible. But really? Buffering when trying to watch streams?


Would say it's once we hit liquidtelecoms routing overseas, CoolIdeas please sort out these guys or route through somewhere else. I really do not feel like having to buy a VPN to be about to watch streams...

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Looney said:
Hmmm, is there a reason why my torrents max out at 100mb? Seeds are very good, premium torrent site.
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Seems like my problem was with Folx. I was using Folx for downloading and it seems like it maxes out at 100Mb/s, downloaded transmission and everything seems fine now.
 
DJZassie said:
Twitch seems impossible to watch. I even get buffering on 480p. This on the 100/100 mbps speeds. Lets not even try and stream ourselves, thats just as impossible. But really? Buffering when trying to watch streams?


Would say it's once we hit liquidtelecoms routing overseas, CoolIdeas please sort out these guys or route through somewhere else. I really do not feel like having to buy a VPN to be about to watch streams...

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Was watching The International all week. Also had buffering issues with Twitch. If I leave it on 720p/60fps it buffers every 5 min. On auto it goes to 480p every 5 min then back to 1080p/60fps. I have problems with other international streaming sites as well. So my guess is there might be an international peering problem or something.
 
KaMoS said:
Was watching The International all week. Also had buffering issues with Twitch. If I leave it on 720p/60fps it buffers every 5 min. On auto it goes to 480p every 5 min then back to 1080p/60fps. I have problems with other international streaming sites as well. So my guess is there might be an international peering problem or something.
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I get better connection to Mexico and Peru than i do to pretty much every node in Europe haha, what a joke... mate on 20/20 fibre with another provider gets 10000+ kbps to every ingest server in Europe and has never had an issue with streaming and is also on Vumatel like I am... So unless CoolIdeas can do something i am probably going to take my business elsewhere.
 
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That's just at the moment, I've maxed out at ~20 MiB/sec down/up given the right torrents. However note that on large swarms you may need to increase the number of connections your torrent client is making; the defaults in many clients tend to be too low for higher speed connections (unless you get lucky and connect to other peers with high speed connections).
 
Just a quick note regarding Twitch streaming for me.

I recently moved home, and for some reason even though I am on a 'lesser' package (50/5) on Fibrehoods my 1080p 60fps streaming is flawless at the new place where it buffered every 10 seconds at the old one. I am beginning to wonder if there was a physical problem with the connection or the splitter was over-subscribed with Fibrehoods for the block of flats.
 
DJZassie said:
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I get better connection to Mexico and Peru than i do to pretty much every node in Europe haha, what a joke... mate on 20/20 fibre with another provider gets 10000+ kbps to every ingest server in Europe and has never had an issue with streaming and is also on Vumatel like I am... So unless CoolIdeas can do something i am probably going to take my business elsewhere.
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We peer with Twitch in London, which then they would carry the traffic elsewhere. You are welcome to please post me your friends test result as that will help.

We get mixed results with Twitch even though traffic is routed the same with the same priority so I believe it is something random we are missing on the last mile or internal network side.
 
sand_man said:
mmmm, maybe my issue is uTorrent. Think I've got it configured for speed but maybe not... Torrents have been crap for me on Cool Ideas/Fibrehoods...

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Well I can confirm that my torrents are now perfect. I guess Folx wasn't configured correctly and that's why it maxed out at 100mb. I tested with Transmission and it was perfect so I realized my Folx settings were wrong. I tweaked the settings and bam, full speed (as long as there were enough seeds). Check your settings.
 
Looney said:
Well I can confirm that my torrents are now perfect. I guess Folx wasn't configured correctly and that's why it maxed out at 100mb. I tested with Transmission and it was perfect so I realized my Folx settings were wrong. I tweaked the settings and bam, full speed (as long as there were enough seeds). Check your settings.
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Yeah, fiddled with my settings and..... much better....

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mithrandi said:
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That's just at the moment, I've maxed out at ~20 MiB/sec down/up given the right torrents. However note that on large swarms you may need to increase the number of connections your torrent client is making; the defaults in many clients tend to be too low for higher speed connections (unless you get lucky and connect to other peers with high speed connections).
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Just adjusted mine on account of your comment. What would you recommend? I had global connections at 200 and maximum number of connected peers per torrent at 50, was getting 4MB/s on requiem's test torrent. Changed to 500 and 200 respectively and now getting 20MB/s!! Upload slots I've left at 4 to prevent rampant upload rates...
 
PBCool said:
We peer with Twitch in London, which then they would carry the traffic elsewhere. You are welcome to please post me your friends test result as that will help.

We get mixed results with Twitch even though traffic is routed the same with the same priority so I believe it is something random we are missing on the last mile or internal network side.
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I will get my friend to do some tests on his side this evening.
In the meantime is there any way i can force twitch to route through ixp.joburg? I see that seems to be my fastest route to london.
Ping times are 20ms slower, however speeds seem fart superior.
 
Fck, I think I owe Paul and Cool Ideas an apology for consistently insinuating that they shape/throttle/manage torrents!!
 
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