Twitch Buffer Issues?

[Bryn]

OS really has no influence on local vs international, once they pass the traffic to the ISP...

Which is along the same vein with what I just posted in the CISP thread. Makes no sense to me that all the traffic for an ISP wouldn't converge at some local point when accessing international destinations, regardless of which fibre network they originate from.

 

[Mirai]

Which fibre network are you on? I might assume that Openserve has a serious issue with international connections or something, but you can't be on Openserve with symmetric speeds. Super weird.

Octotel, same as Zoidberg but I get low international speeds compared to my local. I'm on 100/100.

Now sometimes my international speeds do pick up but not to the levels Zoidberg gets.

 

[Mr Scratch]

Octotel, same as Zoidberg but I get low international speeds compared to my local. I'm on 100/100.

Now sometimes my international speeds do pick up but not to the levels Zoidberg gets.

Best way to test would be to eliminate as many variables as possible. You've ruled out networks, so test on cable on rule out medium, test to the same server to rule out endpoints, test at around the same time to rule out contention.

Only other thing is location, because XDSL or whoever gives CISP JHB<->CPT circuits is sometimes a bit iffy.

 

[mithrandi]

Which is along the same vein with what I just posted in the CISP thread. Makes no sense to me that all the traffic for an ISP wouldn't converge at some local point when accessing international destinations, regardless of which fibre network they originate from.

You may experience packet loss which will result in a drop in TCP transfer speed (as TCP uses dropped packets as signal of link exhaustion); over a local route with single digit latency, the retransmits can happen very quickly so you would only notice a tiny drop in speed if at all, whereas an international route with 150ms+ latency will see a much bigger impact. Thus "poor international speeds but good local speeds" can still be a problem with your last mile rather than the ISP's network.

 

[Mirai]

Best way to test would be to eliminate as many variables as possible. You've ruled out networks, so test on cable on rule out medium, test to the same server to rule out endpoints, test at around the same time to rule out contention.

Only other thing is location, because XDSL or whoever gives CISP JHB<->CPT circuits is sometimes a bit iffy.

Zoidberg is like in Table View, that's just more inland. I'm coastal, probably 3-4km from Table View.

I must stop looking at what speeds other people get, here I thought I should be happy with 99Mbit/sec to the local MWEB server. ;-)

 

[EasyUp Web Hosting]

Twitch 5 extension

To install:

• Open Chrome and go to chrome://extensions.
• Make sure Developer Mode is checked.
• Click Load Unpacked Extension....
• Find your copied directory and click Open.

You are the man! It's working, but I do get this error:

There were warnings when trying to install this extension:
_metadata is a reserved directory that will not be allowed at the time of Chrome Web Store upload.

 

[Soul Assassin]

You are the man! It's working, but I do get this error:

That's more than likely because I had to extract it from my Chrome install, I wouldn't worry about it.