Question / Help Stream drops frames behind a router only

[4590345423]

I'm having some huge issues with frame drops behind a router. My old router just broke, and I decided to buy a new one. While I was waiting for the new one to arrive, I plugged my computer directly into my modem and I was able to stream perfectly for the first time in over a month.

Yesterday I received a brand new router (Netgear WNDR3700 - I installed dd-wrt on it) and I tried streaming again. It worked really well then. I did this after installing dd-wrt.

Today I tried it again and I could not stream without dropping frames horribly. As a test, I just tried connecting to my modem directly and streamed to hashd.tv without any dropped frames, though the indicator turned red once or twice.

I tried streaming to hashd.tv again after reconnecting my router to my modem and I dropped frames. I also drop frames to twitch.tv.

I tried three tests, each one minute long. The first is with my computer connected to my modem directly, the second with a normal connection to my router, and the third after rebooting my modem and router and connecting through the router.

My router is brand new. It's two days old, and something about it is preventing me from streaming at my normal speed. I used to stream perfectly at 1700Kbps with the indicator in OBS never changing from green. I never dropped frames once. It's about that good when I connect to my modem directly, but I don't know what to do about it now. I'll post my three latest logs and I hope that helps.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Warchamp7]

Try the 'Minimize Network Impact' option in Broadcast settings

 

[4590345423]

I should have specified, I already tried this and it seems to make things worse.

 

[Warchamp7]

That's certainly strange. Someone a bit more adept at networking is gonna have to hop in here

 

[4590345423]

I wanted to make it known that I'm still having these issues, but they're strange and intermittent. Yesterday it was okay. The day before yesterday was perfect. Today it's as bad as it possibly could be; probably can't stream past 500Kbps. Yesterday I streamed to Twitch and Hashd almost perfectly at 1700Kbps, with no frame drops. Today nothing works, and I can probably only stream at around 200 to 400.

I'm wondering what could be causing this, as before I had absolutely no problems on any day whatsoever.

 

[Krazy]

It's possible the new router is faulty. Maybe look in to getting it RMA'd?

 

[4590345423]

I would, but I have no way of telling how it could be faulty. My ability to stream seems to change from day to day. Today I can't even stream at 300Kbps, but yesterday I streamed at 1700Kbps just fine, with the indicator turning yellow every so often. And the day before yesterday I streamed perfectly, which was nostalgic at this point. This is all with the new router.

I would test my connection by connecting directly to the modem right now, but that's impossible because other people in my house would get angry.

 

[4590345423]

I was able to test streaming directly from the modem. It's only slightly better; still unwatchable. I'm going to post the past couple logs in case it helps.

I'm honestly not sure why this is happening. If it's because of peak times, then I wouldn't know what to do about it. It wasn't happening before at any time, but now it's difficult to stream. This only started about two months ago.