Question / Help Possible slow server, constant buffering.

Moldiver

Moldiver

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Recenty got fibre, 40meg down 10 up and started streaming (well trying to) base res is 1080 but bringing it down to 720 in OBS and using what seems to be the best settings for a non Twitch partner, 2000 bit rate, 30fps. Only problem OBS picks up is

"Possible slow server

The server you are streaming to (rtmp://live-lhr.twitch.tv/app) took 597 ms to connect. This may mean your connection or the server is slow, or the server is far away from you. If you are using twitch.tv, you may want to try using JTVPing to find an optimal server."

Last night this was 900+ and my stream wasn't viewable due to constant buffering and long load times.

I switched on Minimize network impact and still didn't help, I'm connecting to the London Twitch server, the JTV app has all euro servers in the green.

Any help would be great.
 

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This is just one of many log files I've created today, I've tried a few EU servers and even some East coast servers and I still get 900 ping. When I started today I had a fairly solid Eite Dangerours stream with server ping of 500 but when I switched game it was straight back to 900+
 
Had a look but I pretty much knew everything that was there thanks, from the look of that log I posted, where it says handshake complete with twitch server then a link and the 500+Ms number is that my ping to the twitch servers?
And if so what kind of pig from the servers do I need for a solid stream?

I turned the res on the stream right down and had no buffering and slowly upped it until I was back at 720 and still had no buffering, quality was a bit blocky so changed the setting to medium from very fast and looked ok.

I'll also add I was trying to use a high intensive game for test purposes and it was Battlefield 4 I was using.
 
I've also put a ticket in my my isp, since switching to fiber my vpn software has went from picking up my position pretty accurately to having me now 600 miles away in London, same with a couple
of ip checking sites but speed test.net still uses a server close to my location along with another up checking site, so I don't know if everything is fine or my IP address is causing my net to be routed before it actually gets to the servers.

Was hoping to test a stream while on a vpn to see if in being throttled but getting terrible speed using that so that's not an option.
 
That does sound like some routing issue is going on with your isp.
And about the ping , yea pretty much. But there is not really a "magical" number to strive for.
The server that gives you least amount of lag and issues is simply the best one for you.
Its perfectly possible that one day a server works perfectly and the next day it drops frames like no other.
But this is due to the nature of internet and the demand on the servers on that moment.
 
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