bdk98
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So this issue is very odd. So I've moved into my student housing and everything was all fine and dandy. Did a couple of speed tests and saw that my internet speeds were garbage (5 down 2.5-3.5 up). Naturally, because I'm paying the amount I am for a house with 4 other people, I'd asked management to change that for me. They tried lessening the throttling, with no avail. They ended up removing the throttling all together and I'm now sitting between 60-100mbps up and down.That's the internet situation, but this is where it gets really funky.
I'd attempted a stream on the slow, throttled internet. I'd dropped frames and wasn't able to load live.monstercat.com or anything of the sort as it would cause the stream to drop frames. However, the stream was watchable (5-10% dropped frames). AFTER the internet 'upgrade' (removal of throttling) I'm not able to stream to Twitch whatsoever. I drop about 40% of my frames. I'll start streaming (2500kbps) and it'll work for a whole 10 seconds before bouncing from 2500, to 0, to 4000 to 0, and repeating.
This is where it gets even more weird.
I tried a stream to YouTube at 3000kbps. No issues. Just for fun (and to play around with transcoding) I changed the settings to 1080p 7500kbps. No frame drops. 1080p60p 12000kbps, once again, no issues.
I'm thinking that there is some sort of speed management in place where certain services are being restricted for bandwidth. As to why Twitch would be limited but not YouTube is beyond me. Is anyone else thinking it could be something else? It doesn't seem to be an issue with my setup at all, and the only thing that has changed about my setup is that I've dropped the bitrate from 3500 to 2500 with virtually no difference in the frame dropping situation.
I'm pasting a log from a 'test' stream I tried about 20 minutes ago. It was about two minutes in length and I'd dropped about a quarter of the frames.
I've also run a Twitch Bandwidth Test to NA servers. I'll include that below as well as two speedtests.
I'd attempted a stream on the slow, throttled internet. I'd dropped frames and wasn't able to load live.monstercat.com or anything of the sort as it would cause the stream to drop frames. However, the stream was watchable (5-10% dropped frames). AFTER the internet 'upgrade' (removal of throttling) I'm not able to stream to Twitch whatsoever. I drop about 40% of my frames. I'll start streaming (2500kbps) and it'll work for a whole 10 seconds before bouncing from 2500, to 0, to 4000 to 0, and repeating.
This is where it gets even more weird.
I tried a stream to YouTube at 3000kbps. No issues. Just for fun (and to play around with transcoding) I changed the settings to 1080p 7500kbps. No frame drops. 1080p60p 12000kbps, once again, no issues.
I'm thinking that there is some sort of speed management in place where certain services are being restricted for bandwidth. As to why Twitch would be limited but not YouTube is beyond me. Is anyone else thinking it could be something else? It doesn't seem to be an issue with my setup at all, and the only thing that has changed about my setup is that I've dropped the bitrate from 3500 to 2500 with virtually no difference in the frame dropping situation.
I'm pasting a log from a 'test' stream I tried about 20 minutes ago. It was about two minutes in length and I'd dropped about a quarter of the frames.
I've also run a Twitch Bandwidth Test to NA servers. I'll include that below as well as two speedtests.
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