Dropping 96% of frames, reinstalled OBS, had the ISP out to service line, still dropping 96% of frames

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Struthe

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I have tried nearly everything I can find online to stop my OBS from dropping frames, about a week ago I was able to stream perfectly normally at 6000 kb/s and drop maybe 0.1% of frames. I even had the guy from Cox out this morning to take a look at it and my bitrate is still fluctuating wildly, it starts out around 6000 kb/s but quickly deteriorates to 0 where I'm losing nearly all of my frames. I reinstalled OBS, and have changed my bitrate settings across the board to try and troubleshoot the issue with no success.

Here is my log

 
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Lawrence_SoCal

Active Member
Cox Cable usually only offers 10mb/s upload, so it doesn't take much competing traffic to cause congestion. And then as the troubleshooting guide points out...
- I recommend starting with figuring out how to do real-time bandwidth utilization monitoring at your ISP connection level first (which you could do at cable modem or router (which usually has more info)), then on your machine
- Then I'd test, outside of streaming, that your Internet connection can sustain volume upload bandwidth. And if you run into trouble at this stage, be sure to test with a different clean/known-good machine.
- *IF* sustained uploads (not streaming) work to other targets, then time to test whether issue is
- Traffic to and/or your streaming target (try an alternate stream host/CDN?)​
- Your PC (could be recent OS, driver, or security software, or anything else running in background interfering)​
- or any number of other issues​

For months (last fall) we had an issue with Facebook regularly briefly dropping frames (like 2-3 seconds) at least once per 1h+ streaming session. Local PC was not overloaded, Recordings were fine, etc. And then the issue went away... the joy of using a free service
 
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