You are just so amazing. Always contributing amazing stuff to the community. While I will try this out, I'd also like to ask what you think about the following:

http://www.bananaconda.net/2013/05/how-to-fix-lag-on-twitchtv-vimeo-and.html

My connection doesn't lag all too often, but it does happen from time to time. I will try it out and give feedback if I happen to watch a streamed-tournament (not just occasionally but a larger tournament, so the feedback is appropriate)

ManicMarine

Australia409 Posts

July 09 2013 07:20 GMT

#102

Holy shit it works! I haven't been able to follow SC2 live for over 6 months due to terrible twitch. Now twitch is (almost) lag free. I can finally watch things other than VODs and GSL!

R1CH, where are you, I feel like I need to take you to dinner or something.

Fuchsteufelswild

Australia2028 Posts

July 09 2013 07:34 GMT

#103

Great, I'll try this in about 90-120 minutes probably, when I have more of a chance.
I'm hoping this is nothing like that "SpeedGuide.net TCP Optimizer" though, because every setting I tried on that (using guides and recommended settings to find what supposedly should be best for my connection) has resulted in slower download and upload speeds (and thus higher pings).

R1CH, since the beta of Twitch "2.0", I and some other people have had Twitch chat freeze reguarly, to the point where the only way to keep up with any chat you care about is to use a pop-out version and manually refresh it when you think chat has been silent for too long (pop-out so that you don't unintentionally refresh the stream when you are trying to watch video at the same time).
Is there any particular way to fix that, or else to analyse that that you know of?

R1CH

Netherlands10340 Posts

July 09 2013 07:37 GMT

#104

On July 09 2013 16:04 NarutO wrote:
You are just so amazing. Always contributing amazing stuff to the community. While I will try this out, I'd also like to ask what you think about the following:

http://www.bananaconda.net/2013/05/how-to-fix-lag-on-twitchtv-vimeo-and.html

My connection doesn't lag all too often, but it does happen from time to time. I will try it out and give feedback if I happen to watch a streamed-tournament (not just occasionally but a larger tournament, so the feedback is appropriate)

That guide doesn't do anything for Twitch, they run their own CDN and don't rely on L3 / XO (except for mobile streams and certain rare scenarios). It keeps getting posted which is quite annoying as if anyone did any testing they would see the IPs mentioned in that guide are never accessed when watching Twitch.

NarutO

Germany18839 Posts

July 09 2013 07:44 GMT

#105

Thank you :-)

thezanursic

5478 Posts

July 09 2013 08:00 GMT

#106

R1CH, could you maybe give us some insight why the Twitch servers are lagging now and were not in the past when there were more people using the service?

FaZiNaTe

Germany290 Posts

July 09 2013 08:01 GMT

#107

Nice i will try this out later :-) have a lot of lagg issues too.
From Germany with + 50k DSL

R1CH

Netherlands10340 Posts

July 09 2013 08:06 GMT

#108

On July 09 2013 17:00 thezanursic wrote:
R1CH, could you maybe give us some insight why the Twitch servers are lagging now and were not in the past when there were more people using the service?

What makes you think there are less people now? Twitch have been showing consistent growth since launch, and more people have started streaming at higher resolutions and bitrates due to faster hardware being available.

-JMT-

Germany4 Posts

July 09 2013 08:21 GMT

#109

I can finally watch twitch again, thank you so much

icystorage

Jollibee19343 Posts

July 09 2013 09:28 GMT

#110

To the people that have the 10060 error. Try pausing and playing your stream. It will load after a while. I dont know what cause this in the first place but this is the solution I am using.

R1CH is badass

Dagobert

Netherlands1858 Posts

July 09 2013 09:31 GMT

#111

Too bad I don't use Chrome... but I just wanted to chime in with the guy who said that mainly commercial streams lag for him.

Same here. I can watch random Russians play at 1080p without stream-hiccups, but streams like BTS and TobiWan lag even at 240p sometimes. I have a 30Mbit connection (reduced to about 6 when routed through the US) so it should perform better.

Moreover, I have a lot of plugins installed that supposedly hurt ESPORTS (including Ghostery, Flashblock, NoScript) and it doesn't seem to help.

ZappaSC

Denmark215 Posts

July 09 2013 10:02 GMT

#112

I am sitting on a 30/30 fiber connection, and have always lagged at 1080+. With this running, I get initial "loading" lag, which is to be expectet, but now after 2-3 seconds, the stream run FLAWLESSLY.

Thank you so much mr. wizard.

sabas123

Netherlands3122 Posts

July 09 2013 10:03 GMT

#113

the magical wizard of almight technlogie that blew the kingdom of the failed twitch servers out in the water.

y0su

Finland7871 Posts

July 09 2013 10:05 GMT

#114

currently trying this out while watching OGN and GOM @720 - streams are working well (usually this would cause some lag - we'll see how it goes once the games pick up).

Shinobi1982

1605 Posts

July 09 2013 10:30 GMT

#115

WOWOWOW this is amazing! Usually I open up 4 streams and have to lower all non watched streams to 240p-360p to be able to watch the focused stream on highest quality without lagging. I just did a quick test and had 0 lag with 7 streams open.

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I have no clue how this works, all I know is I can now watch multiple streams without lagging. R1ch you are amazing.

Atravir

Norway3 Posts

July 09 2013 10:34 GMT

#116

Thank you R1ch. Can watch 720+ and 1080 without lagg so far at the moment, when I had to resort to 720 / 480 in the past, even though I have a good connection.

MrSourGit

England135 Posts

July 09 2013 11:20 GMT

#117

I'm gonna try this when I get home !!!

Sounds good , ill let you know how it does . I've been lagging like hell (in England London) with the best net I can get ... I kept re-installing flash and chrome and stuff , nothing really works .

Thanks R1CH , nice one.