Question / Help Confused about Bandwith in OBS studio

[flygrizzle]

Hey guys,

I am very very new to this so please keep that in mind,

I went and got OBS up and running, did some testing and tried to find the right settings for streaming.

I have a very old iMac (mid 2010) with an old Intel i3 processor, that might have something to do with the fact that my streaming is not optimized.

The problem is: I checked my internet speed on speedtest.net, and it turns out I have a ping of 4ms and an upload speed of 93Mpbs. (I believe thats insanely fast)

However, when I go to OBS and do a bandwith test, it says that the recommended bandwith is only 1500.

What am I doing wrong here? (It also says 830x540 is the resolution)

I am all the way confused as I have no idea what to change in my settings??

Note: I use Remote Play to capture my gameplay in OBS, I was actually using Window Capture but I read here that Window Capture is really slow

 

[Narcogen]

Speedtest.net tests are simply not relevant for streaming.

When OBS tests, it is testing your connection to Twitch, not to a server explicitly set up by an ISP for maximizing their speed test result.

That Mac is also too weak to do much with.

 

[flygrizzle]

Speedtest.net tests are simply not relevant for streaming.

When OBS tests, it is testing your connection to Twitch, not to a server explicitly set up by an ISP for maximizing their speed test result.

That Mac is also too weak to do much with.

Okay fair enough,

I kind of knew my mac was very weak, i just hoped it would atleast be capable of doing something lol

Also, turned out I had a bad ethernet switch, so I bought a better one, and now I get upload speeds of nearly 500Mbps, is that gonna make any significant difference in my situation?

 

[Narcogen]

If the switch was actually defective, possibly. Run the OBS Auto Configuration Wizard again, it will test your connections to Twitch.