Good internet, bad when streaming

Hello there.

Since I've begun streaming, I've had an issue that I'm at a loss on how to solve.
I live in an area with no optic fibre coverage, as it is impossible to set up apparently. As an alternative, I have a 4G Box with unlimited data.
On a speed test, I get 39ms Ping, 14mb/s down, 13 mb/s low. It's pretty fast and I never get issues.

When I stream however, it'll randomly decide to go up and down. Whenever I play an online game, it's a gamble whether my in-game ping will rise to sometimes 300ms (basically getting me stuck in a time loop), and whether my stream bitrate is going to drop and either make the entire thing delay for several minutes sometimes, or with Dynamic Bitrate pixelate the image and then go down the drain anyway regardless.

I don't think it should do that considering my bandwidth, and I definitely don't think it should only do that on certain days seemingly at random, while other days I have very stable streams and games. I've tried using twitchtest on a medium europe test and got one server around 75 quality and the rest varying between 35 and 60, most of them being around 50 quality basically. As I've said, I tried using Dynamic Bitrate and all it did was pixelate things before everything spiked, so I'd argue it made it even worse.

Here is my log file, of the session where I tried dynamic bitrate:


In all likelihood, I messed up a setting somewhere which caused this, and I hope it's the case so that I can fix it. Otherwise, I fear I might need to change ISP again, or even move out to a place with optic fibre, which would cost me a lot.
 

R1CH

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Unfortunately this is the nature of 4G (and other mobile internet) - your speeds will vary from minute to minute depending how congested the tower is, doubly so if your signal to the tower is weak (weaker signals require more "air time"). If the cell tower is quite a distance a way you may benefit from an external antenna such as https://mikrotik.com/product/lhg_4g_kit. Playing with the positioning of the router may also help (get it close to windows / outdoors), but don't expect a perfect connection over 4G even under the best conditions.
 
Hmm, I see, I feared as much. Thing is, my antenna is really close to my place already, and my internet speed almost never drops... I don't know if it's very bad luck that it happens whenever I stream or if streaming is simply just not reliable on 4G at all, but either way that probably means I'll have to move out, somehow... thank you for the reply.
 
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