Live stream connection disrupted, any way to recover and continue?

OBS Studio lost connection to my internet late in my YouTube live stream tonight, but it was a brief disruption and recovered right away... except for everyone watching live who kept refreshing and either the stream remained frozen for them or it kept repeating the same five seconds over again and then freezing. I continued to stream as if everything was okay until I realized nobody could see me, so then I ended the stream.

I'm going live again tomorrow night and I'm terrified of this happening again. If it does, is there ANY way for me to refresh or recover the stream so I can continue on and people can actually continue watching me? Or if there is even a minor break in the connection where my WiFi drops, am I totally screwed?

My log is below, if anyone can tell me if they see what the problem may have been:

 

qhobbes

Active Member
In many cases, wireless connections can cause issues because of their unstable nature. Streaming really requires a stable connection. Often wireless connections are fine, but if you have problems, the first troubleshooting step would be to switch to wired. We highly recommend streaming on wired connections. If you can't run an ethernet cable to your router, look into an ethernet over power adapter.
 
and when you want to have a stream thats didnt stop when your connection broke you need a RTSP proxy so the proxy connects to YT and your PC ist connected to the proxy when you go offline the proxy can send a picture with a message. this is good for IRL streams over Mobile internet too

Not really sure how easy that is to set up? So what you're saying is that by doing this, if there was another brief break in the connection during one of my streams and it quickly came back, instead of the stream being totally screwed, I'd be able to continue on?

That's really my primary concern right now while I figure out if there's a way to get hard wired into the router in the other room. Not even sure I have an ethernet port on my laptop.
 
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