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I've been VPNing to San Francisco (from France) all of summer because of the abysmal Twitch performance from here (not helped by the ISP (Free) who is also causing problems with YT and Twitch...), but after a quick test, it seems like your extension helps quite a lot.
I still got some pauses on the WCS AM stream on high, but few and far between. Which is clearly better than unwatchable lag on low...
(and I got the same pauses from SF anyway)
Too bad there's not much to watch this week while waiting for Blizzcon, but it may clearly be a lot of help. I'm not disabling this anytime soon.
I stopped watching basically any stream for the last few months, except for DH and the live parts of WCS, all because of Twitch EU. Even if using a VPN connected to SF helps (a lot), it's still a huge pain in the ass. So since Twitch itself isn't doing much to fix the situation (remember the 3 new datacenters in EU that were supposed to help? Did someone see any improvement?), this extension may very well be *the* solution for now.
Clearly, connecting to Twitch's US servers is much better than going through their EU datacenters. No idea why.
Via VPN I tried France, Switzerland, Sweden (in Stockholm, where one of the new datacenters was supposed to help), UK, Spain, ... unbearable lag everywhere. San Francisco? Always watchable, at least on high. I may be bad at geography, but I don't think SF is the closest city...
Still, I hope that someday, someone (at Twitch, since ISPs won't ever care about this), will "officially" do something about this...
I'll be linking this to all my previously SC2-watching friends that simply stopped, in (a big) part because of Twitch (not only, but I'm still hoping Blizzard will take care of the other reasons  ).
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Seems to be working for me, sitting in Sweden. Currently watching a stream that's 720p 3800kbps and it's flawless. I have not been able to watch that stream on Source for months. Thanks a lot for this.
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In case anybody is interested, i routed these domains on port 80 and 443 and its working. ^_^
www.twitch.tv
usher.twitch.tv
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Australia7069 Posts
This worked for me in Australia. First time watching a source quality stream in months. so good. must be avoiding the singapore servers i guess? Or twitch just magically fixed itself the second i dropped this into my chrome :O
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Thanks for actually trying to fix the problem !
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Works perfectly fine for me, couldn't watch Source before, now I can! Very well done
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Omg! It's for sure that im gonna look into this when i get home!
I have been unable to watch twitch.tv for months!!
*Edit*
This works just perfect!! Thank you sooooo much! im finally able to watch streams with minimal lag! <3 <3 R1ch for president! :D
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This works great in the first test. Can't wait for BlizzCon now.
Thank you so much.
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Nope, doesnt work for me in Finland, still lags.
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I'm from Germany and this works perfectly. Wasn't able to watch any streams on "source" before. Thanks a lot!
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I can finally watch source streams, It has been a while and twitch.tv support only gave me stupid answers to this issue. Thx
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MY FUCKIN GOD, i can't express how happy i am. thank you sooo much.
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I'm not getting it to work. There is no additional information being showed in my twitch player and I have tried reinstalling the app.
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Should this improve my connection from Australia?
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Thank you R1CH!
I used to buy HD passes to almost every event, but stopped a couple of months ago because of the poor Twitch service.
With this fix it seems tournaments will be getting my money again.
Lets hope Twitch will truly improve their service in Europe and stop making excuses that it's the customers fault.
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It actually works fine, thank you very much :D
I can now watch streams in Source quality, instead of a laggy Medium quality.
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Denmark866 Posts
yeeaaa, if only it wasn't supporting a crappy browser
Also I still cant believe tournaments don't start using things like dailymotion or other sites more, since twitch has been crappy for soo long and only gets worse, at least for EU
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On November 03 2013 19:18 Cinim wrote:
Also I still cant believe tournaments don't start using things like dailymotion or other sites more, since twitch has been crappy for soo long and only gets worse, at least for EU
I'm not sure that Dailymotion would do better :/
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I can finally watch 1080p with my 100 mbit connection. Great!
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