za_Kilswitch
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Has any ground been made here.
Im really struggling still on 100/100 cool ideas.
Im really struggling still on 100/100 cool ideas.
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Fibre & Twitch.tv testing needed please
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medicnick83
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I'm streaming fine these days, I just have to run a bandwidth test and check which servers are "100%" on the day... normally it's London but it's not always - you need to run a 30 second + test to get good results.
If it's really bad, change to YouTube Gaming - you'll def get great results.
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Doing great on my 50/5 with Cool Ideas. My route is letting me down at the moment, not the ISP :|
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Hey guys!
I just stumbled upon this thread while trying to find out about a potential local Twitch server. What's up!
I've actually been struggling to stream to Twitch since last year September on my 10/10 Fibre connection as well. As Nick mentioned earlier during June of this year there was a short period where all the filtering or limits or whatever it is was disabled and I was getting 10000+kbps to all the servers. Alas, as of June 23 it is all just dead and back to 2500~kbps. The Italy server in Milan was working for a while but that's also given up now. It seems, as of right now, the only real option for us is a local server much like YouTube has. I mean, to Twitch I struggle with 2500~kbps while YouTube kills 10000+ easily. Unfortunately, as was mentioned before, the audience prefers Twitch and I quite honestly do as well. Even with YouTube's new subscription style service they are rolling out it still doesn't compare to the sheer numbers and sense of community and passion you can find on Twitch.tv.
I live in Knysna and have been up and down between all the ISP's and I've been testing as many connections as I can but cannot find anything that works or anyone with answers. My results look much the same as what you guys have been posting here and from what I can tell it is, for the most part, out of the ISP's hands. It really looks like if any of us want to stream to Twitch we either need a miracle to happen that will fix the current slow speeds or we need enough interest in the country for Twitch to consider a server here, or close to here. Maybe one of the ISP's could reach out to them to potentially make it happen? I feel that might be the best chance for those of us that actually want to be on Twitch.
If any of you guys have anything more to add or suggest regarding this dilemma I'd love to hear it!
Edit: Interesting thing I found this morning - Doing a speedtest on the Restream.io website gives really, really good results - https://restream.io/speed-test - but when you actually connect to any of those servers and start a stream up the speed given during the test is just gone and it once again caps out at around 2500kbps. Smart guys - Any idea why that would be? Do they potentially use different servers for their speedtests to make them look better or is it something to do with the type of traffic or the way it is routed. I am just interested in why I get 10000kpbs to the speedtest on any given server and then only get 2500kbps when I try stream to the very same one. Thanks <3
I just stumbled upon this thread while trying to find out about a potential local Twitch server. What's up!
I've actually been struggling to stream to Twitch since last year September on my 10/10 Fibre connection as well. As Nick mentioned earlier during June of this year there was a short period where all the filtering or limits or whatever it is was disabled and I was getting 10000+kbps to all the servers. Alas, as of June 23 it is all just dead and back to 2500~kbps. The Italy server in Milan was working for a while but that's also given up now. It seems, as of right now, the only real option for us is a local server much like YouTube has. I mean, to Twitch I struggle with 2500~kbps while YouTube kills 10000+ easily. Unfortunately, as was mentioned before, the audience prefers Twitch and I quite honestly do as well. Even with YouTube's new subscription style service they are rolling out it still doesn't compare to the sheer numbers and sense of community and passion you can find on Twitch.tv.
I live in Knysna and have been up and down between all the ISP's and I've been testing as many connections as I can but cannot find anything that works or anyone with answers. My results look much the same as what you guys have been posting here and from what I can tell it is, for the most part, out of the ISP's hands. It really looks like if any of us want to stream to Twitch we either need a miracle to happen that will fix the current slow speeds or we need enough interest in the country for Twitch to consider a server here, or close to here. Maybe one of the ISP's could reach out to them to potentially make it happen? I feel that might be the best chance for those of us that actually want to be on Twitch.
If any of you guys have anything more to add or suggest regarding this dilemma I'd love to hear it!
Edit: Interesting thing I found this morning - Doing a speedtest on the Restream.io website gives really, really good results - https://restream.io/speed-test - but when you actually connect to any of those servers and start a stream up the speed given during the test is just gone and it once again caps out at around 2500kbps. Smart guys - Any idea why that would be? Do they potentially use different servers for their speedtests to make them look better or is it something to do with the type of traffic or the way it is routed. I am just interested in why I get 10000kpbs to the speedtest on any given server and then only get 2500kbps when I try stream to the very same one. Thanks <3
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