Dropping Frames only on Twitch, YouTube works fine

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PureM4rc

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Hey, I wanted to start streaming again on Twitch (with 6,000kb/s) yesterday just to find out that my dropped frames were very high, so I tested streaming on Youtube with even higher bitrate (14,000kb/s) to see if it's my internet being bad at the time.
But it turns out that the Youtube stream with the higher bitrate worked perfectly while using the exact same settings.

My connection is 80MB/s down and 20MB/s up and usually get close to these numbers on testmy.net.

Here is the OBS Log of my test streams, first is Youtube and second is Twitch.

So it seems to me that I only struggle with my connection to the Twitch servers while everything else is fine.

I'm grateful for all tips to help me fix this weird problem. Thanks in advance!
 
Run R1ch's Twitch Test tool. You want a server with a Quality score above 90, preferably 100. Your connection to the Twitch server may just not be great; dropped frames are ALWAYS a network issue.

Yep, according to your logfile, your connection to the Twitch ingest server you chose just can't keep up:
17:28:51.633: Output 'adv_stream': Number of dropped frames due to insufficient bandwidth/connection stalls: 1437 (31.8%)
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I just tested every server listed in the Twitch Test Tool, I get 0 quality on every single one.
Did a test stream on Youtube after and 0 dropped frames with 14Mb/s, so my upload speed in general should not be the problem.
So I guess that my ISP is the problem here then?
 
PureM4rc said:
I just tested every server listed in the Twitch Test Tool, I get 0 quality on every single one.
Did a test stream on Youtube after and 0 dropped frames with 14Mb/s, so my upload speed in general should not be the problem.
So I guess that my ISP is the problem here then?
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Yep. Your connection to the Twitch servers, for whatever reason, is absolutely terrible. Likely packet loss issues somewhere, or intentional traffic shaping. You CAN test the latter with a VPN if you have a decent one (read: non-free). Streaming uses a lot of upstream bandwidth, and ISPs generally don't like that as it's less-cheap.
 
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