The Plight of the SA Twitch Streamer

GlacieredPyro said:
Haha!

I love Sodapoppin!

I will be streaming this weekend.
Either my DIII gameplay or something else that I can't talk about just yet. ;)
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No bro! :eek: ha ha! That Sodapoppin is something else... "whistling:

If you dont create a topic hit us a post on here when you go online ;)
 
Sweet! Thanks Glacier! We're also going to be streaming on Saturday from 4pm till 4am. I'll check your stream out too dude
 
What do you guys think about streaming through LTE? Has anybody tried this and what are your thoughts on the matter?
 
Snare said:
What do you guys think about streaming through LTE? Has anybody tried this and what are your thoughts on the matter?
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Considering the upload speed of LTE, I don't see why it shouldn't work. The only issue is weather conditions affecting your connectivity and stream.
 
DuckKnuckle said:
Considering the upload speed of LTE, I don't see why it shouldn't work. The only issue is weather conditions affecting your connectivity and stream.
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Iv heard that LTE shouldn't be affected by weather? True or not so much? Wouldn't be the most cost effective solution that's for sure...
 
Snare said:
What do you guys think about streaming through LTE? Has anybody tried this and what are your thoughts on the matter?
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Should work fine. You may drop a couple of frames though.
Also data will be expensive but other than that I don't see any problems.
 
I feel your pain guys. I have done a ton of optimizing on OBS to try get my stream right. I have a 4 meg line. 10 meg lines from Telkom don't really get you any higher upload speed. So you still sit on around 0.5 Mbps. So it is tough.

I work in Mpumalanga so that makes it even harder since we have 0 fiber here and 0 coverage for any one that offers 1+ Mbps upload. I stream okish with offline games but nothing else is possible. I know you can stream LoL with 2 Mbps UP which is what my bud does (from the Netherlands). Someone (Telkom) offered me 10 Mbps down and up but it was going to cost me R10k per month so I kinda had to say no. I have 7 followers on Twitch so far and only 1 of them is a friend :D. So a few people have enjoyed my stream. I cannot wait for fiber to be common in SA.

You guys can check out my stream. I try make it fancy lol. http://www.twitch.tv/hump_your_leg

If you guys have any suggested streaming programs and optimal settings I would really appreciate it.
 
Hump_Your_Leg said:
I feel your pain guys. I have done a ton of optimizing on OBS to try get my stream right. I have a 4 meg line. 10 meg lines from Telkom don't really get you any higher upload speed. So you still sit on around 0.5 Mbps. So it is tough.

I work in Mpumalanga so that makes it even harder since we have 0 fiber here and 0 coverage for any one that offers 1+ Mbps upload. I stream okish with offline games but nothing else is possible. I know you can stream LoL with 2 Mbps UP which is what my bud does (from the Netherlands). Someone (Telkom) offered me 10 Mbps down and up but it was going to cost me R10k per month so I kinda had to say no. I have 7 followers on Twitch so far and only 1 of them is a friend :D. So a few people have enjoyed my stream. I cannot wait for fiber to be common in SA.

You guys can check out my stream. I try make it fancy lol. http://www.twitch.tv/hump_your_leg

If you guys have any suggested streaming programs and optimal settings I would really appreciate it.
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Just saying I have a 10 meg line, and I get from a 0.8-1 meg upload, so it really does help :P
 
You'll notice a lot of FTTH options popping up, the nice thing about fiber is the upload speed are close to the download speeds,
so switching from a 10mbps ADSL to a 10mbps fiber should give you pretty decent twitch streaming at least 720@60fps. Probably do 1080 too.
 
Gforced said:
You'll notice a lot of FTTH options popping up, the nice thing about fiber is the upload speed are close to the download speeds,
so switching from a 10mbps ADSL to a 10mbps fiber should give you pretty decent twitch streaming at least 720@60fps. Probably do 1080 too.
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I'm hoping to upgrade to a 20mb unshaped line soon when I move to the new place.

2mb upload should be good for 720 streaming.
 
Steam has a new ingame streaming option, pretty nifty and easy to use. But wow does it chow your internet badly!
 
BTW - VDSL 40Mbs has better upload speeds. I found it to average 2.5Mbs

"Upload line sync speed of min 1280 kbps and max 3072 kbps"
 
ISP's providing fixed wireless internet consisting of a dish connected to a receiving tower, have by far better upload speeds on their business packages like e.g ADSL. But it's also more expensive but the contention ratio in comparison with other types of internet is fantastic.
 
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