Recommended ISP's for watching Twitch streams

[alexjg42]

I'm with Afrihost on a 20mbps vdsl capped offering.

In the recent weeks, mostly at night, I've experienced a lot of buffering on Twitch steams. I went through Twitch's troubleshooting and I've done everything they and other users recommended, but I still buffer a lot. Even on low 360p quality. I used to be able to watch 720p and even 1080p steams without any buffering a few months ago.

There's a big Dota2 tournament coming up and I booked in leave from work to watch it. Now I'm scared that I'm going to end up watching the tournament with constant buffering.

I contacted Afrihost support to see if they can do anything from their side to stop the buffering, but I also need to consider other options.

Can anyone please recommend me an alternative to Afrihost for watching Twitch steams without buffering?

 

[shooter69]

There's a big Dota2 tournament coming up and I booked in leave from work to watch it.

You know you are getting old when you see something like this and go "WTF :wtf:". Nothing wrong with it. I am just not used to seeing/hearing that people take of work to see people play pc games. The world changed...

sorry for the thread derail.

ps. Try Cool ideas. I have not been using them for long but I am very happy with the streaming. (I am on fiber though)

 

[alexjg42]

You know you are getting old when you see something like this and go "WTF :wtf:". Nothing wrong with it. I am just not used to seeing/hearing that people take of work to see people play pc games. The world changed...

sorry for the thread derail.

ps. Try Cool ideas. I have not been using them for long but I am very happy with the streaming. (I am on fiber though)

Haha, I never though I'd be doing that, but I've grown quite fond of e-sports. The tournament's prizepool is over $22million so it's a pretty big event.

Anyway, I've never heard of Cool Ideas, but I'll go have a look.

 

[medicnick83]

I use RSAWEB fibre - 20/20 and I have no issues watching streams.

 

[Soul Assassin]

Try this before you do anything drastic:

Download Streamlink and Streamlink Twitch GUI.

Once both are installed open Streamlink Twitch GUI - Settings - Enable advanced settings.

Now go to the third tab, it should be called Streamlink, set the stream type to rtmp and HLS segments to 10.

 

[alexjg42]

Try this before you do anything drastic:

Download Streamlink and Streamlink Twitch GUI.

Once both are installed open Streamlink Twitch GUI - Settings - Enable advanced settings.

Now go to the third tab, it should be called Streamlink, set the stream type to rtmp and HLS segments to 10.

I can't believe how much smoother and clear the stream quality is. I'm for sure going to use this to watch streams in the future.

On high quality I still got a lot of buffering though. When I switch to medium quality then I only get buffering once in a while.

Are you on Afrihost?

 

[Soul Assassin]

I can't believe how much smoother and clear the stream quality is. I'm for sure going to use this to watch streams in the future.

On high quality I still got a lot of buffering though. When I switch to medium quality then I only get buffering once in a while.

Are you on Afrihost?

I'm with Vox on 20Mbps VDSL.

I can watch any quality stream without issue, I couldn't find a 1080P stream right now but I did just test a 900P stream at 60FPS and it was perfect.

Edit: I just tested out the current Dota 2 stream with the most viewers which coincidentally was 1080P and it was working perfectly.

 

[alexjg42]

I'm with Vox on 20Mbps VDSL.

I can watch any quality stream without issue, I couldn't find a 1080P stream right now but I did just test a 900P stream at 60FPS and it was perfect.

Edit: I just tested out the current Dota 2 stream with the most viewers which coincidentally was 1080P and it was working perfectly.

Thanks. I think I'll check Vox out. Even if it's just for a month so that my leave isn't entirely wasted.