Recommended ISP's for streaming to Twitch(1080p/720p)

[VindicatoR]

My CPU used to be my bottleneck for streaming at 1080p, but since I've gone Ryzen now I'm able to stream@1080p while gaming and not having it affect my gaming performance, but now I'm running into the problem where the stream is not maintaning a stable bitrate for that quality setting.

Recommended bitrate for 1080p streaming is between 3000 and 3600.

It's been fairly stable on 2800 bitrate(some artifacting on fps games), but there are times where it just drops and I've tested both Afrihost and Webafrica with the same settings and both can't provide me with a stable upload rate at time it seems.

With Webafrica in general the stability is great(ping wise), but for some reason I'm only able to get like 50Mb down on a 100Mb line... and then when I swap to Afrihost I manage to get as close to 96Mb down, but getting an overhead of 10-20ms and stability some evenings are just shocking at best.

Summary:
Webafrica: Stable but not getting full speeds.
Afrihost: 70% Stable but getting full speeds.
Both giving issues with upload stability.

Current setup is 100/50 Openserve fibre connection and I'm looking at alternative data providers who can provide me with a more stable upload rate than Afrihost/Webafrica.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[alexjg42]

At what times did you test the Afrihost? between about 8 and 11pm my speeds goes way down.

 

[VindicatoR]

It's anything between like 4PM and 1AM, 2-3 months ago I had zero issues on Afrihost latency wise, then it just went to downhill for some reason.

OBS would show green bitrate at 3000 and then it would flicker red to as low as 1800-2200 and then back up, so I can clearly see it's not keeping it stable.

 

[C@sparis]

May I ask what you are streaming?
Would it be an option to stream at 720p to gain performance increase?

 

[VindicatoR]

May I ask what you are streaming?
Would it be an option to stream at 720p to gain performance increase?

Streaming PUBG/Overwatch/Diablo3 mostly at this stage, but streaming on 720p on my i5 2500k was fine "performance wise", had a lot of tweaks that I had to do, but now I'm not taking the performance hit on my new system and only noticed now that it's on the ISP side holding me back.

 

[C@sparis]

If you still have the second pc - use that for streaming. Link attached for setup, however read replies from several other streamers for improvements. Ultimately that's what I would do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jROntrxj5-E

As a matter of interes:

I assume you are running an intel CPU. If so unlock/unpark all the cores? If not done already consider this as it helps prevent bottlenecking, increase throughput performance. I take it you have a beast with loads of memory?

Sorry if these points might have been considered and covered, just a few thoughts my side incase.

 

[VindicatoR]

I had the idea to go dedicated streaming pc, but I think I'll run into the same problem as it's not bottlenecked on the system performance.
I've upgraded to a Ryzen 1600x and I've monitored cpu usage now and it's definately not a performance issue.

It's from what I can tell directly related to my upload speed that I'm getting from my isp.