Hi.
Got some problems. My stream has remarkably fluid quality. Sometimes it stays up for hours, no problem. Sometimes it goes down once or twice in that hour, which is annoying, as it splits my twitch archives (seriously, why does the local recording reflect connection drops and/or how do I disable that? That's dumb as hell, and the main reason I save a local file is so that I have a record that isn't at the mercy of my connection). Sometimes, like tonight, the stream can't stay up for more than 30 seconds, which is quite annoying when you just wanna play games. =/
I can't narrow the problem down. I'm stuck trying to stream over wireless (yeah, it sucks, but there's nothing I can do about that). My ISP is wow (formerly knology) and I have no idea if it might be a connection problem either. Finally, twitch is twitch.
so yeah. that's the general situation. I don't expect anyone to magically solve this with the flick of a switch, but more direction on how to go about testing stuff would be really awesome. I don't really know how to diagnose possible network problems.
other notes:
-I've tried keeping bitrate low. this does help, some (I used to get interference with my headset; suppose I could still be getting interference with something else but I changed the band the computer was on). But once it's under a certain point (generally 300-400 kbps) lowering it further doesn't make disconnects any less likely on some nights.
-I can't really tell what other settings might be affecting it. I've tried keeping low latency mode on and off, bitrate spikes way more depending on setting (which is probably bad) but eventually the kbps streamed display crawls back down to 0 before the beep.
-Dallas and/or alexandria secondary seem to consistently be the best ingest servers, although when the problem really gets going no twitch server is immune (some nights I went through and exhaustively tried every single US server).
any thoughts, or settings that could mitigate the impact of all this crap?
http://speedof.me/show.php?img=130926161405-17414.png
log: http://pastebin.com/PR5vQHni
Got some problems. My stream has remarkably fluid quality. Sometimes it stays up for hours, no problem. Sometimes it goes down once or twice in that hour, which is annoying, as it splits my twitch archives (seriously, why does the local recording reflect connection drops and/or how do I disable that? That's dumb as hell, and the main reason I save a local file is so that I have a record that isn't at the mercy of my connection). Sometimes, like tonight, the stream can't stay up for more than 30 seconds, which is quite annoying when you just wanna play games. =/
I can't narrow the problem down. I'm stuck trying to stream over wireless (yeah, it sucks, but there's nothing I can do about that). My ISP is wow (formerly knology) and I have no idea if it might be a connection problem either. Finally, twitch is twitch.
so yeah. that's the general situation. I don't expect anyone to magically solve this with the flick of a switch, but more direction on how to go about testing stuff would be really awesome. I don't really know how to diagnose possible network problems.
other notes:
-I've tried keeping bitrate low. this does help, some (I used to get interference with my headset; suppose I could still be getting interference with something else but I changed the band the computer was on). But once it's under a certain point (generally 300-400 kbps) lowering it further doesn't make disconnects any less likely on some nights.
-I can't really tell what other settings might be affecting it. I've tried keeping low latency mode on and off, bitrate spikes way more depending on setting (which is probably bad) but eventually the kbps streamed display crawls back down to 0 before the beep.
-Dallas and/or alexandria secondary seem to consistently be the best ingest servers, although when the problem really gets going no twitch server is immune (some nights I went through and exhaustively tried every single US server).
any thoughts, or settings that could mitigate the impact of all this crap?
http://speedof.me/show.php?img=130926161405-17414.png
log: http://pastebin.com/PR5vQHni