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Twitch.tv sucking for anyone else? Constant pauses
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Lazy vs Crazy
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Hey this worked in 3 minutes of testing on Comcast.
PAULINK
I microwave steaks.
I don't know if this is just a recent problem but it's hard for me to scrub through my videos in order to create highlights because I have to constantly pause the video and wait for it to buffer.
huh I will need to try this out
huh I will need to try this out
Same problem here. Streams (watching Game of Thrones and Speedrunners on Twitch) are a mess.
Thought it's a problem with firefox, Adobe Flash Player. So what is the reason/solution?
Google fiber plz
Like that'd ever happen. Doubt Google would want to deal with all the red tape bullshit that would come along with trying to install their own fiber lines here in the city.
PAULINK
I microwave steaks.
I thought this was a problem with firefox, so I tried chrome and still had the same stuttering issue.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Xbox Live sucking the Gold out of it.
TouchMyBox
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FaintDeftone
Junior Member
Holy shit, thanks for that link!
Ingueferroque
Banned
Let me guess, Time Warner Cable? You are being throttled. Try this proxy: http://www.speedproxy.co.uk/
Dead Prince
Banned
i guess sony was right to partner with ustream.
Agreed. I'm in Tampa on a 60 down/6 up connection and the Miami server is garbage so I'm forced to use the Ashburn, VA secondary server which isn't so hot either.
Krappadizzle
Member
TWC throttles a few websites, Youtube and Twitch are some of those websites. It's bullshit.
This could be the case; I'm right on the WC and my connection to Twitch has pretty much always been awesome. I thought some of their upload servers were spread out though?
When Sp00ky switched to Own3d for a month or two (he's based out of NYC) the difference in quality was unreal.
Silly.Mikey
Banned
iphone one just started working for me, after 2-3 updates.
So... I was watching a KSP stream on my PC. Everything was fine and running smoothly.
I decide to go do something else in another room and bring my ipad. I follow the guy so it's easy enough to find him in the ipad app.
When I tap on his channel I get a black screen but the chat works fine... I tried everything and I just can't get the video to load. I can see other channels just fine and his channel is still working fine on my pc.
So, is that because he's out of the 300 channels or it's because the app simply sucks ass? Either way I can't understand how a company can release such a terrible product.
I decide to go do something else in another room and bring my ipad. I follow the guy so it's easy enough to find him in the ipad app.
When I tap on his channel I get a black screen but the chat works fine... I tried everything and I just can't get the video to load. I can see other channels just fine and his channel is still working fine on my pc.
So, is that because he's out of the 300 channels or it's because the app simply sucks ass? Either way I can't understand how a company can release such a terrible product.
Just wanted to say that this post:
http://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/196239/block_time_warner_cable_stream_throttling/
helped quite a bit for me on comcast.. could be coincidence but I doubt it. I couldn't watch a single stream @ 1080p and now I can...
http://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/196239/block_time_warner_cable_stream_throttling/
helped quite a bit for me on comcast.. could be coincidence but I doubt it. I couldn't watch a single stream @ 1080p and now I can...
Made a post about this elsewhere last week.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=57302008&postcount=1660
And in similar to people here, It's been happening in the last two weeks for me too. I am on FIOS, 50 download and 30 upload so I don't think it's that. I tried resetting my router and other various things to be sure. My adobe flash is up to date, etc, etc. All I can think of is perhaps the server the stream is using does not gel with my connection. But using JTVping, nothing is in the red for me so I should be good.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=57302008&postcount=1660
And in similar to people here, It's been happening in the last two weeks for me too. I am on FIOS, 50 download and 30 upload so I don't think it's that. I tried resetting my router and other various things to be sure. My adobe flash is up to date, etc, etc. All I can think of is perhaps the server the stream is using does not gel with my connection. But using JTVping, nothing is in the red for me so I should be good.
Do I log into my router or do I just block using the firewall on my pc?
Zeouterlimits
Member
Heh, it has felt better for me in recent weeks, less pauses.
Same here (Germany, Unitymedia 50Mbit via cable). Everything 720p+ on Twitch has lag and is basically unwatchable for the last two weeks or so.
Same here
This makes me feel better, but I just spent an hour on the phone with TWC.
Same plan too. I can't even watch 480p right now, I even put on 240p and it's stuttering every 10 seconds.
At least SPL has been pretty watchable on 720, sometimes I have to drop to 480.Same issue for me the past two weeks or so. I have TWC.
It insanely frustrating since I have paid subs to the GLS and ProLeague for SC2.
Doesn't help GOMTV loads super slow.
Always felt a bit unearned how quickly Twitch became the de-facto streaming site for gaming, it's been sucking for me as well and mobile is a joke. I hope if a competing service shows to be significantly better they're rewarded with the audience migration, the field should be a lot more open right now than it appears to be.
Subterranean
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What did TWC say about the problem? I would like to know because I am about to call my local TWC offices.
TWC is blaming the pre-caching servers being used. They offer no help.
HoodWinked
Member
comcast was doing this several months back after a huge LoL tournament, some idiot or higher up probably thought there was too much bandwidth usage so they just decided to throttle it.
time warner probably just doing the same thing now that the 360 app may have increased the number of users
time warner probably just doing the same thing now that the 360 app may have increased the number of users
MotionBlue
Member
If you're having pauses from Twitch, it usually means your connection to their servers is slow/disrupted. Usually it's your ISPs fault not theirs.
I got to a Tier 2 supervisor and basically got told it wasn't TWC, but the website (Twitch).
I got my case # down and will continue the calls after I get more info from Twitch about how to continue.
Something is being flipped somewhere when I can't watch 720p at 11:25PM, but can watch 3 HD streams and a 1080p VOD at the same time an hour later (after midnight).
ECT this weekend I had to watch at sub HD, and two streams today I couldn't watch at 480p, even 240p on a stream was pausing every 10 seconds.
*12:35am today and I can't watch a 480p VOD without pausing every 3 seconds. I guess it's just crud right now.
Living on the east coast Twitch has always more or less been shit for me, and I have a good connection. I will say that switching to Chrome has fixed a lot of it though, and I haven't had these recent stuttering issues like some people are having.
In general it's still ass though, and it's obvious what's going on when there's a big DotA or LOL tournament going and that's running fine but then every other stream on the site is running like shit. I will also echo the sentiment that when sp00ky switched to own3d briefly the difference was unreal, I could watch that at max quality and it was flawless consistently. I would probably give Twitch sub money if they got their shit together and put some servers on the east coast, there's way too much consistency with the fact that the most people who have the most problems are on the east coast. They can blame ISP's to a point, and I'm sure that IS true, but that's certainly not the whole story.
In general it's still ass though, and it's obvious what's going on when there's a big DotA or LOL tournament going and that's running fine but then every other stream on the site is running like shit. I will also echo the sentiment that when sp00ky switched to own3d briefly the difference was unreal, I could watch that at max quality and it was flawless consistently. I would probably give Twitch sub money if they got their shit together and put some servers on the east coast, there's way too much consistency with the fact that the most people who have the most problems are on the east coast. They can blame ISP's to a point, and I'm sure that IS true, but that's certainly not the whole story.
HoodWinked
Member
if you use a vpn or proxy it may magically fix the issue given the proxy allow high bandwidth. also try IE Tab extension for chrome that seemed to help but i couldnt explain why.
If you have Time Warner cable and would like to stop the pausing go to this link:
http://mitchribar.com/2013/02/how-to-stop-youtube-sucking-windows-guide/
It is the same as the reddit link but is easier to implement given it is a command prompt copy and paste.
http://mitchribar.com/2013/02/how-to-stop-youtube-sucking-windows-guide/
It is the same as the reddit link but is easier to implement given it is a command prompt copy and paste.
I've tried 5 browsers (Older Firefox, Firefox 20, Waterfox 18, Chrome, IE 10), 32/64 bit Flash, Old Flash (11.2), 11.7 Flash, Hardware accel on/off, and 2 different video drivers.
I've seen this more for Youtube. I don't care for that because it's generally not an issue and I can use proxfree to load 1080 no problem.
I don't have a work around for Twitch, and I'd like to know what I can do as it's my main media consumption.
TWC east coast here and that fix does nothing for me.
I have TWC in PA, I was told it would work for me
Now that I have tried, it doesn't seem to
YouEnjoyMySelf
Banned
Twitch has always done this for me. Nothing new.