Question / Help Can someone explain this to me?

[axeisgonnaaxe]

This is my internet connection:

This allows me to upload with a maximum speed of 1,25MB/s. The point is that I'm currently streaming with 3000kb/s and OBS shows a green box (like everything is alright) and no frames are dropped etc pp.
The stream works just fine

But how am I able to upload more than I actually can? it's not kbites, is it?

 

[Osiris]

9,5 megabits per second and you are streaming at 3 megabits per second.

 

[george passmore]

uplaod speed is the stated speed unlike download which you dont get the full speed your shown

 

[axeisgonnaaxe]

9,5 megabits per second and you are streaming at 3 megabits per second.

I thought kb is kilobytes.. then 1080p with only 400kByte/s seems pretty low to me.. I mean, 1080p needs to be more than 0,4MB/s

 

[george passmore]

1080p works in pixels not kbs
encoding videos use bitrate to determin the speed of the textures and pixels to be read at

 

[Osiris]

I thought kb is kilobytes.. then 1080p with only 400kByte/s seems pretty low to me.. I mean, 1080p needs to be more than 0,4MB/s

Small b is bits, uppercase B is bytes. For streaming we talk about bits, hence the name bitrate. And yes 3000 kbps is not enough for 1080p, but that's what you got to work with.