GregRedd
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Fear of being labelled a necromancer and reviving a couple of two year old threads has prompted me to start a new one. (No offence to those OPs.)
I am trying to setup a Twitch stream channel and am well confused by a fairly important element at the moment: Selecting the best Twitch server to broadcast to. I'm hoping that anyone still around from the days of those old threads, or someone lurking who does stream at the moment may be able to advise, and possibly even share their settings and experience.
I've been running a Twitch bandwidth test tool at various times over the past week in an effort to get a handle on which server is the best for me to try stream though. Repeatedly I get results that indicate I should be using a server in South America?
These are the results I got when I last ran the test a few minutes ago. Every time prior to this the results have been very similar. As is obvious, I'm getting significantly higher bandwidth and quality rates from South America, but with latency that sucks. By comparison, the European servers (which I always assumed were the ones I should use) give me much better - still not great though - Round Trip Times but much lower bandwidth and quality levels. (The tool creator suggests that "anything over 80 [Quality] is probably stable enough for streaming". I've yet to see any EU server return a quality level over 75.)
So there's my confusion. Do I opt for lower bandwidth and quality but better latency from the European servers, or the higher bandwidth and better quality from South America?
I am trying to setup a Twitch stream channel and am well confused by a fairly important element at the moment: Selecting the best Twitch server to broadcast to. I'm hoping that anyone still around from the days of those old threads, or someone lurking who does stream at the moment may be able to advise, and possibly even share their settings and experience.
I've been running a Twitch bandwidth test tool at various times over the past week in an effort to get a handle on which server is the best for me to try stream though. Repeatedly I get results that indicate I should be using a server in South America?
These are the results I got when I last ran the test a few minutes ago. Every time prior to this the results have been very similar. As is obvious, I'm getting significantly higher bandwidth and quality rates from South America, but with latency that sucks. By comparison, the European servers (which I always assumed were the ones I should use) give me much better - still not great though - Round Trip Times but much lower bandwidth and quality levels. (The tool creator suggests that "anything over 80 [Quality] is probably stable enough for streaming". I've yet to see any EU server return a quality level over 75.)
So there's my confusion. Do I opt for lower bandwidth and quality but better latency from the European servers, or the higher bandwidth and better quality from South America?