Question / Help 5mbs up speed enough for 3500 bitrate ?

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H3llF1re1000

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The title says most of the question. I have a up speed of 5mbs and i wan't set my bitrate at 3500 kbs but idk if 5mbs is enough for it. The game im streaming is GTA V and some other games
 
It depends on how much your minimum constant throughput is. Speedtest.net won't tell you that (in fact, they throw out your slowest 30% of responses, so it's useless). Only way to find out is to try it and see. Theoretically it should be.

That said, unless you are a Partnered caster, you should NEVER stream at 3500kbps, or even close to it. Most of your viewers will buffer like crazy. The advised max bitrate for non-partnered casters is 2000kbps. The 3500kbps number is what the ingests are rated to handle without running into issues on the ingest side.
 
FerretBomb said:
It depends on how much your minimum constant throughput is. Speedtest.net won't tell you that (in fact, they throw out your slowest 30% of responses, so it's useless). Only way to find out is to try it and see. Theoretically it should be.

That said, unless you are a Partnered caster, you should NEVER stream at 3500kbps, or even close to it. Most of your viewers will buffer like crazy. The advised max bitrate for non-partnered casters is 2000kbps. The 3500kbps number is what the ingests are rated to handle without running into issues on the ingest side.
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what about 3000kbs ?
 
2000. Even at 2500 a lot of people will start to buffer.
This isn't a negotiation, it's information that Twitch released about their own content delivery metrics.
 
This applys only to non-partnered streams without transcoding and also not for everyone, just for some people here and there, who have a shitty routing to San Francisco.
Talking to the local ISP is really helpful to improve the connection.
 
No. This is from Twitch's internal metrics.
PLEASE stop encouraging people to ignore this, just because you do not personally get buffering. The vast majority will. You are giving out bad information that will harm the growth of smaller streamers.
 
FerretBomb said:
No. This is from Twitch's internal metrics.
PLEASE stop encouraging people to ignore this, just because you do not personally get buffering. The vast majority will. You are giving out bad information that will harm the growth of smaller streamers.
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This, you have to be very careful with your bandwith and not just stream at whatever you can, because remember, it will exceed the bandwith of the people watching your stream and make the buffer and pause your stream if the internet is not as fast, i think the recommended 2000 kbps is good enough.
Try to focus on how to squeeze more quality in those 2000kbps.
 
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