Twitch Buffer Issues?

Soul Assassin said:
Do you Twitch mostly on desktop?
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Exclusively on desktop. Uninstalled the mobile app after seeing how many ads it pushes.

PBCool said:
There is no fee to change, just the nightmare dealing with openserve to cancel your current line and order a new one through us. They dont have a "migrate/move function" as yet.
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What the hell. Does this ordeal involve downtime?
 
Interesting thread and read pertaining Twitch and Livestreamer using Streamlink Twitch GUI.

Set it up myself just now, and works much better than normal Twitch via the browser. Although I'm not on fibre any more, 1080p streams run brilliantly now on my 12mb ADSL connection :D

720p60 does give issues like you guys say, which is quite weird, but thanks for this. Definitely going to be using this from now on for streaming Twitch :)
 
Bryn said:
Wow it works perfectly! Thanks! Kinda sucks not having Twitch chat but the quality is awesome.
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Download Chatty

Chatty is a Twitch chat client for everyone who wants to try something new and different from the webchat, but doesn't want the complexity of an IRC client or miss out on the Twitch specific features.
 
Soul Assassin said:
Download Chatty

Chatty is a Twitch chat client for everyone who wants to try something new and different from the webchat, but doesn't want the complexity of an IRC client or miss out on the Twitch specific features.
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Okay so currently the best I can watch without buffering is 360p and early today I could only watch 160p. I just set twitch to 480p and I watch the Buffer Size build up to 7sec and then once it reaches 0 again the buffering starts.

At 360p the buffer size is around 10-20sec but always maintains above 9sec so it doesn't buffer.

Paul, if we could try do the routing via the JHB network that would be great. I will PM you my details if a Tech would like to call me today/tomorrow.

Thanks
 
Ocotel 100/25mb with Cool Ideas. I can't stream anything on twitch without buffering... and its been an issue for the past few weeks/months. Its extremely frustrating as I stream other sites just fine.
 
harties said:
Ocotel 100/25mb with Cool Ideas. I can't stream anything on twitch without buffering... and its been an issue for the past few weeks/months. Its extremely frustrating as I stream other sites just fine.
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Seems like this issue started around a week ago. I will spend the day tomorrow with the techs working out what's up.
 
harties said:
Did you manage to get any feedback? Its still streaming painfully on myside.
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Currently working with them to resolve the issue.

It's sort of a Good news Bad news situation.

Good news support are being super helpful and quick to reply, bad news is that the issue seems to be a time based issue as this morning at 3am I was watching 2x 720p60 Source streams and playing GTA 5 online and everything was smooth as butter but now at 11:30 I can't watch a single 160p stream so I have a feeling it's either the Content Delivery server can't/won't push the data as it isn't even arriving at my router (MikroTik RB2011UiAS-RM) or somewhere along the line a upstream provider for Cool Ideas is running a QoS rule which is impacting the connection.

I had an issue in the past where I could access websites hosted on AWS but my friend on Cool Ideas down the road could and the issues was a upstream provider.

I will keep you all updated.

Code: 
Traceroute has started…

traceroute: Warning: live.twitch.tv has multiple addresses; using 192.108.239.86
traceroute to live.twitch.tv (192.108.239.86), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets
 1  10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1)  1.186 ms  1.163 ms  0.860 ms
 2  155.93.252.1 (155.93.252.1)  1.337 ms  1.460 ms  1.496 ms
 3  154.0.1.125 (154.0.1.125)  1.152 ms  1.212 ms  1.011 ms
 4  154.0.1.13 (154.0.1.13)  1.398 ms  1.637 ms  1.218 ms
 5  10.10.10.15 (10.10.10.15)  1.443 ms  1.468 ms  1.632 ms
 6  wc-grwf-br1-gi0-3-3203.enetworks.net (45.220.129.84)  1.643 ms  1.640 ms  1.464 ms
 7  41.60.242.1 (41.60.242.1)  1.961 ms  2.438 ms  2.182 ms
 8  teng0-3-0-5.luk-p1-tho.liquidtelecom.net (5.11.10.170)  141.947 ms  142.326 ms  142.009 ms
 9  bun-eth2.luk-p2-tho.liquidtelecom.net (5.11.10.115)  143.477 ms  142.079 ms  142.227 ms
10  teng0-0-0-0-luk-pe1-tcy.liquidtelecom.net (5.11.10.99)  142.262 ms  142.750 ms  141.937 ms
11  xg1-1.br01.fra01.justin.tv (80.81.194.181)  159.985 ms !X * *
12  * * *
13  * xg1-1.br01.fra01.justin.tv (80.81.194.181)  160.692 ms !X

Could you try do a tracert to live.twitch.tv?
 
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live.twitch.tv has an absolute ton of IP addresses, so I used the specific one from your traceroute:

Code: 
mithrandi@lorien ~> mtr --report-wide -T 192.108.239.86
Start: Sat Jun 24 18:34:12 2017
HOST: lorien                                   Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- elvandar.mithrandi.net                    0.0%    10    0.6   0.4   0.4   0.6   0.0
  2.|-- 154.0.4.1                                 0.0%    10    1.3   1.0   0.9   1.3   0.0
  3.|-- 154.0.2.125                               0.0%    10    1.2   1.1   0.9   1.7   0.0
  4.|-- 154.0.1.66                                0.0%    10    1.5   1.5   1.4   1.8   0.0
  5.|-- 154.0.1.142                              40.0%    10  1005. 168.9   1.5 1005. 409.9
  6.|-- 154.0.1.222                               0.0%    10  165.2 165.1 165.0 165.4   0.0
  7.|-- lhr01-br01.justin.tv                      0.0%    10  171.7 272.6 171.1 1183. 320.1
  8.|-- ???                                      100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
  9.|-- 10.255.0.226                              0.0%    10  250.5 250.7 249.7 256.6   2.1
 10.|-- 10.18.12.2                                0.0%    10  288.3 286.3 248.1 294.6  13.7
 11.|-- 10.18.36.194                             10.0%    10  290.2 291.4 288.7 297.1   2.8
 12.|-- ???                                      100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
 13.|-- ???                                      100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
 14.|-- ???                                      100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
 15.|-- ???                                      100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
 16.|-- ingest-proxy-edge-a24d98.sfo01.justin.tv  0.0%    10  314.4 314.7 312.8 319.3   1.6

Note that the performance to the ingest proxies only really matters if you're trying to broadcast, not watching a stream. To the node I'm currently streaming from:

Code: 
mithrandi@lorien ~> mtr --report-wide -T 52.223.194.242
Start: Sat Jun 24 18:38:29 2017
HOST: lorien                                Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- elvandar.mithrandi.net                 0.0%    10    0.4   0.4   0.3   0.4   0.0
  2.|-- 154.0.4.1                              0.0%    10    1.0   3.0   0.9  17.4   5.2
  3.|-- 154.0.2.125                            0.0%    10    0.9   1.0   0.9   1.2   0.0
  4.|-- 154.0.1.66                             0.0%    10    1.5   1.7   1.4   3.0   0.3
  5.|-- 154.0.1.142                           20.0%    10  3019. 378.9   1.5 3019. 1066.9
  6.|-- 154.0.1.222                            0.0%    10  167.7 175.3 167.6 241.7  23.3
  7.|-- lhr01-br01.justin.tv                   0.0%    10  174.3 174.3 173.7 177.0   0.9
  8.|-- 10.26.52.130                           0.0%    10  166.9 170.6 166.8 176.2   3.9
  9.|-- video-edge-c68144.lhr03.hls.ttvnw.net  0.0%    10  222.8 220.5 200.7 222.9   6.9

I'm actually getting a small bit of choppiness on a stream I'm watching now (but nothing major, maybe 3 or 4 streaming stalls / buffering for a few seconds in the space of an hour or so).
 
Hi Everyone

Just an update. So last night from around 10pm till 4am which was working super smooth, multiple streams on source settings with no buffer.

Anyone till try to watch anything last night? any issues?
 
Nicholas Marzio said:
Hi Everyone

Just an update. So last night from around 10pm till 4am which was working super smooth, multiple streams on source settings with no buffer.

Anyone till try to watch anything last night? any issues?
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We are also experimenting with using our London peer and Johannesburg national for a select few the Vumatel users, we did that switch this morning. So please monitor for me and let me know as well.
 
PBCool said:
We are also experimenting with using our London peer and Johannesburg national for a select few the Vumatel users, we did that switch this morning. So please monitor for me and let me know as well.
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Will do, will report back via your clientzone portal.
 
Hey guys,

Recently joined the fibre master race and this is still an issue for me... I have no issues watching previously recorded streams at 1080p, but am unable to watch live...
 
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