Question / Help Very high ping and unstable internet

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Smoshi

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First time this has ever happened. I have 12mbps upload. Tried streaming with 8000 bitrate all the way down to 5000. I get very, very high ping in-game to the point that sometimes the game won't even load (you find a multiplayer match but can't get in). I even had problems going to google.

But then I switched over to Shadowplay with 8000 bitrate and everything is perfectly fine. There has to be something I setup incorrectly?

OBS Studio
i7 8700k
nVidia gtx 1060
8GB DDR4
Windows 10

I tried some really low settings too just to eliminate the possibility that the settings were set too high but that too made my ping spike. I noticed when I had my bitrate said 5000+ obs would only show me hitting like 4000.

https://hastebin.com/hizapefoxe

Maybe it was just a bad night for my internet. Going to try again today.
 
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GamerHD

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Try using Normal or Below Normal process priority for obs.
You are experiencing something that is called Bufferbloat in your router/modem, which simply is a queue of data in your router/modem that keeps filling up because you are reaching your max bandwidth.
To fix that, you will need to do a speedtest and find out your actual upload speed, then take around 90 to 95% of that and put it as a upstream/uplink bandwidth limit in your router/modem through QoS setting or something similar, that way it won't queue data anymore (as before when the router/modem did not know what the max bandwidth was)
To be sure you are experiencing bufferbloat, open cmd and ping google.com -t
Leave it running and you should be getting around constat pings, do a speedtest and during the test if those pings start spiking a lot, that is bufferbloat.

Also, if you don't use CBR in obs, use it.
 
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