Question / Help Ping and dropped frames?

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Ironhero890

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I have an upload sleep of 0.7-0.8 and can stream online games with around 550 bitrate. However, after a while of streaming, there are lag spikes and the dropped frames start to increase like a snowball effect. The kbps in the corner goes up and down and I drop more and more frames until I set the bitrate to 50.

I can stream for around an hour with out any problems but whenever something in-game starts to use more upload (loading a match/sending scores), its like all the applications are fighting over it.

I streamed some Dirty Bomb and it said I had 988 ping... Whenever the internet goes bad like this, I set the bitrate to 50 and wait for everything to stablise then change it to a higher bitrate but sometimes I still drop frames when setting the bitrate even at around 200. Sometimes, disabling the ethernet adapter and re-enabling it in Device Manager solves it but not always and I dont want to always restart the stream.

I have around half an hour of technical difficulties everyday... pls help
 

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Ironhero890

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"Number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 3434828503 (80.2%)" Not sure why tho, My CPU is powerful enough and stays around 50% CPU usage.
 
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but then when i open the program again it goes back to normal.
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this is 2 of them open at the same time but they are getting different results for some reason. The one on the left was just opened and the one on the right was open during the upload test
 
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R1CH

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Your connection is terrible, the results from JTVPing and TwitchTest and PingTest all confirm it.
 
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Ironhero890

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Those results are after a few hours of streaming, I can stream with 550 bitrate for the first 1 to 2 hours of my stream but then it drops frames and i cant even stream with 100 bitrate. Anything I can do? and wheres the problem? Just my internet or could my router cause a problem?
 
Adrian Schofield

Adrian Schofield

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This sounds like traffic management, I checked Talk Talks web site and they say that they don't use traffic management but I'm not sure based on what you are saying. This is unlikely to be your router I would think it's more likely to be your ISP. The results from the tools all show that your connection is absolutely dire as @R1CH says and so that's where you need to look but don't hold your breath most ISPs don't really understand streaming :-)
 
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Im 14... poor... and my parents pay for my internet... but i dont want to give up streaming. I've been doing it everyday for about 7 months now and 1 day without streaming makes me depressed
 
Adrian Schofield

Adrian Schofield

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Dude there's really nothing you can do, if the ISP is throttling your bandwidth then that's out of your hands. Everything looks fine from the software and hardware that you have control over it's just your connection which is not great at the best of times. You've not got a lot of option apart from taking a long break when you start to lag and then coming back to it when your network has recovered but bear in mind that if it is your ISP that's causing the problem you may just need to limit yourself to a few hours every day.

I just had a look at your logs and there are lots of problems with encoding as well which could be causing you to have a very low quality looking stream, just thought I'd let you know but I expect that the network problem is more of an issue for you than the quality :-)
 
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