Question / Help Streaming with 0.2MBPS Upload

[hamiltonfan1705]

Hi

For the past year and a bit I've been streaming my rFactor 2 series and like 2/3 of the people I have interested are interested cos of the live streams.

But recently my network has downgraded and it seems to be a problem at the BT exchange so there is nothing we can do about it at home. But I have to stream the races as I'm worried it may take a while to sort it out, especially as there is a lot of races coming over the next month that there is no date I can hold them on.

I couldn't stream one of the races on Sunday but what I did was I recorded it and uploaded it later but I didn't like doing that as I had to wait 10 hours for it to upload.

And if I have say the next 3 races unable to be streamed, it could severely damage the image of my league and lose me fans because 2/3 of the people I have interested are interested cos of the streams!

So with 0.2MBPS how can I stream to a quality that people are not gonna turn on and immediately turn off cos the quality is so poor or its lagging so much?

 

[FerretBomb]

There's nothing you can do with that little bandwidth. It isn't even enough for a 120p stream.
Heck, that's barely enough for an audio-only stream. Contact your ISP and make them fix it. That is your only recourse.

 

[Boildown]

.2 MB or .2Mb? The latter isn't enough for anything at all, the former you might be able to do a very small video but its not really worth it imo.

 

[hamiltonfan1705]

OK. My dad has raised this issue to BT via the site and nothing has happened. I am still getting 0.2MBPS. What do I do? I was able to delay the thing I had but to this weekend, and its not likely its gonna be back up by Saturday, and it isn't possible to delay it any further.

 

[Boildown]

Nothing that Open Broadcasting Software can do to enable you to stream with too little bandwidth. Make YouTube videos instead of streaming, maybe.

 

[sam686]

Try speedtest.net, what does that show as your upload and download? Upload speed of 1 Mbps or more is needed for streaming. Less then 0.5 Mbps upload speed will not work for live streaming as the quality will be terrible and/or lagging.

If speed test shows more then 1 Mbps or more then live stream might be ok with the right OBS configuration as long as the internet have good connection.

There is something you could do, complain to your current ISP and/or switch to a different ISP (internet service provider).

 

[hamiltonfan1705]

I can't switch to a different ISP as there is only one network exchange in our village and that is BT.

And I can't make youtube videos as it'd take like 8 hours to upload the full stream. I could wait till college to upload it but people would have to wait two days which would just turn people off...

Especially as both championships in this series might be clinched tomorrow (Formula E based series) and I didn't put this much effort into this season (this is the first season of the FE series I've done) for the championships to be decided not on a livestream

Try speedtest.net, what does that show as your upload and download? Upload speed of 1 Mbps or more is needed for streaming. Less then 0.5 Mbps upload speed will not work for live streaming as the quality will be terrible and/or lagging.

If speed test shows more then 1 Mbps or more then live stream might be ok with the right OBS configuration as long as the internet have good connection.

There is something you could do, complain to your current ISP and/or switch to a different ISP (internet service provider).

 

[Harold]

200kbit is barely enough for the audio portion of the stream.

 

[hamiltonfan1705]

I do highlights videos but not as many people view those, I could turn them into extended highlights but then that would mean theyd take like 7 hours to upload...

 

[FerretBomb]

That's about your only choice, really. If uploading a pre-recorded video takes that long, there's no way you'd be able to deliver the same video in real-time, which is more or less what livestreaming does.