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is anyone else having problems live streaming, i stream from my church and my home having problems from both with frams dropping any one know why tried everything in helps
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Lawrence_SoCal
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we had plenty of problems, 6 years start of COVID-19 lockdown and residential area Internet overwhelmed...
but recently - no
Trying everything would me you did some real-time monitoring of your LAN and WAN traffic, and might be able to correlate certain data traffic events (or bandwidth usage) with your observations. This is network troubleshooting 101 ... if you haven't done this, then you have even started... sorry, much less 'tried everything' . Again, apologies for bluntness, but this is technical, so scientific method, and an understanding of networking is a required first step.
A common mistake under-funded and technically challenged Houses of Worship face, is
1. setting up Guest WiFi and that NOT use Quality of Service (QoS) to bandwidth/rate limit Guest network usage, especially during a service... but really should be all the time)
all it takes is one person (think teenager) having something running on their phone hooked up to your Guest WiFi and cause havoc for your Internet connection. And that same person may not even realize the network impact they are having.
2. not using network isolation (ex VLANs) to separate Guest WiFi from office vs livestream networks. Personally, I made sure all 3 of those were separated. This is easy to setup, but NOT with typical consumer network router gear. ymmv
Starting questions would be -
- did streaming without dropping frames work previously?
if no, then basic setup issues may be cause (inadequate hardware, wrong OS or OBS Studio settings, etc)
If yes, is live streaming working fine when no one else is around (ie no office staff around, no guest using Guest WiFi, etc..)?
If livestreaming works when others aren't around, then bandwidth contention is likely the cause... how to fix that depends on your circumstances and budget (ie provision fiber multi GB service... but a single problem device can saturate large links, so large bandwidth link is usually just a punt/temporary measure).
You aren't using a cellular service based Internet connection are you? if yes, that could easily be the problem, especially if in more rural area... lots of people concentrating for service, connecting to same cell tower... throughput drops... expected outcome
anyways, some starting thoughts/ideas
but recently - no
Trying everything would me you did some real-time monitoring of your LAN and WAN traffic, and might be able to correlate certain data traffic events (or bandwidth usage) with your observations. This is network troubleshooting 101 ... if you haven't done this, then you have even started... sorry, much less 'tried everything' . Again, apologies for bluntness, but this is technical, so scientific method, and an understanding of networking is a required first step.
A common mistake under-funded and technically challenged Houses of Worship face, is
1. setting up Guest WiFi and that NOT use Quality of Service (QoS) to bandwidth/rate limit Guest network usage, especially during a service... but really should be all the time)
all it takes is one person (think teenager) having something running on their phone hooked up to your Guest WiFi and cause havoc for your Internet connection. And that same person may not even realize the network impact they are having.
2. not using network isolation (ex VLANs) to separate Guest WiFi from office vs livestream networks. Personally, I made sure all 3 of those were separated. This is easy to setup, but NOT with typical consumer network router gear. ymmv
Starting questions would be -
- did streaming without dropping frames work previously?
if no, then basic setup issues may be cause (inadequate hardware, wrong OS or OBS Studio settings, etc)
If yes, is live streaming working fine when no one else is around (ie no office staff around, no guest using Guest WiFi, etc..)?
If livestreaming works when others aren't around, then bandwidth contention is likely the cause... how to fix that depends on your circumstances and budget (ie provision fiber multi GB service... but a single problem device can saturate large links, so large bandwidth link is usually just a punt/temporary measure).
You aren't using a cellular service based Internet connection are you? if yes, that could easily be the problem, especially if in more rural area... lots of people concentrating for service, connecting to same cell tower... throughput drops... expected outcome
anyways, some starting thoughts/ideas