I recommend re-reading your post then clarifying
OBS seems to just disconnect randomly after a few minutes of streaming no matter what. I've tried bandwidth tests and had the same issue.
I have no idea what that means?
Do you have disconnects when running bandwidth test? if yes, then fix your Internet connection... do not 'advance passed Go' until that is done. period. Dynamic bitrate might help, by temporarily dropping quality during bandwidth contention
And yes, i recognize I stream on a wi-fi connection but this issue seems to be completely unrelated to that because I've experienced disconnects before and this seems to function in a completely different way.
Uh, why would you think WiFi is unrelated? Unless you have real-time WiFi monitoring in place, and watching for other WiFi devices (neighbors), you will no idea why/when issues will occur. Realize that watching videos over Wifi (where your clients is buffering and actively hiding intermittent bandwidth issues) will NOT tell you if livestreaming (uploading) video will work. And workign one moment and not the next is perfectly reasomnable in denser urban areas, or anyplace with RF signal interference on your WiFi channels
And then you need real-time monitoring of your LAN and WAN to make sure unexpected traffic isn't causing bandwidth contention
oh, and that PoS plugin streamelements has historically caused all kinds of network issues. do yourself a favor... first test would be setup OBS Studio in portable mode, no plugins, and test from there.
