Question / Help PC and connection good enough for a SC2 stream?

[spiritstr]

Hello guys, this is actually my settings:
Core i5 2500 3.3GHz
GTX 650 2GB DDR5 (i will change for a Radeon HD 7850 2gb)
1x8GB DDR3 Corsair Vengeance
and this is my connection test

 

[dodgepong]

That's a pretty bad upload rate. You might be able to get a blurry 360p stream out of that, but don't expect anything nice-looking. You can always just download it and try it out to see how well it performs.

 

[spiritstr]

Hm... i see, i think the i will change my IPS soon and get at least 1mb upload, could i stream with 480p without problems with this settings?

 

[dodgepong]

It would be kinda tough, still. To stream at good quality, you probably need at least 3 Mbps upload available, maybe 2Mbps for good 480 or even 720p for SC2. Again, you can always try it and see if you're happy with the quality.

 

[FerretBomb]

Note, that's 3mbps constant, not peak. Speedtest measures peak (which is acceptable for dead-file transfers), but run a test at http://testmy.net/upload with the 6MB test to determine your constant available throughput (which is the important one for livestreaming, and determines what kind of bitrate you can use without getting lag/stutter/dropped frames).