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Alternatively, http://support.twitch.tv/discussion/5067/fresh-win-7-install-unable-to-view-streams#latest.
Basically I was able to watch any stream besides justin.tv and twitch.tv. What it came down to is people having Windows 7 Home Premium edition and it being only able to support up to 16 GB of RAM. What some people did is cut down on the RAM and what others did was upgrade to a better version of Windows 7 and it solved the issue.
Hope this helps!
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I've always had a problem with Twitch since the beginnings of time, that's why I always picked own3d over it.
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Hi Guys,
I also had this issue and only now found the solution (for me, anyway, it's worth a try.) Turns out my video services were routing my video through congested servers that used bandwidth throttling in order to allow even more congestion into the servers. After investigating, I found the IP ranges of these toxic servers. After blocking them from my router and Windows Firewall I found that youtube, twitch.tv, and vimeo services all worked flawlessly. Here is my post on this fix which includes an easy to follow youtube video on how to block these ranges in windows firewall. Enjoy,
Mark bananaconda @ twitch.tv
http://www.bananaconda.net/2013/05/how-to-fix-lag-on-twitchtv-vimeo-and.html
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Seems to work for youtube but not twitch for me. Gotta check youtube again tonight at peak hours, thanks anyway!
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what i wanna know is how to block the incoming IP's through your router as well
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Applies to UK?
I've often had as much as 20-50% downtime (frozen on 1 frame) on any stream over 0.5-1mbit, it's probably like that most of the time i try to watch stuff on twitch, though a lot of the time i can dual monitor a pair of 3mbit streams and sit for hours without noticable problems on either of them
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@Nimix Glad that it worked for youtube. I found that after I blocked the IPs I had to do a lot of refreshing on certain pages. However, everything seemed to work.
@KyleShaffer21 What kind of router do you have? Do you have the option to flash it with DD WRT? If not that's okay!
@Cyro I would say so. People have reported it fixing their issues in Germany and Australia.
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Thanks, tried it and seem to be getting different results
hard to say for sure if it's fixed long term (sometimes twitch worked fine before) but internet usage behavior is different, at least
The top of that is my max download rate, is this normal operation?
You can see in the middle of the second graph where there is a static scene, and bitrate drops a ton, but for most of the first one, it's higher than i would think (close to 7mbits for blocks of time) and i don't think the streamer was using anywhere near that much bitrate, but i'd rather it do that then sit at 0-4mbits, cliffing occasionally and freezing constantly
Right now it's just bouncing between my maximum download rate and 0kb/s (filling buffer?) to average out to the stream bitrate
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Twitch should start a new streaming company similar to all the other streaming companies that actually work, and then put Twitch in a trash can and burn it. (meant in a sarcastic tone)
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It's not their fault if you have to spend a minute and a half blocking a few IP ranges for things to work perfectly.
They don't even own the servers.
I can agree on a lot of the frustration though, since quite a while before NASL season 1 i had constant issues on anything but the smallest bitrate streams
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I'm a complete noob on all that IP stuff. I've tried changing my IP address but I had no clue what I was doing. Any guides to this stuff for complete idiots?
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Well nope not working for youtube at night either, 1080p unwatchable with 10Mb/s DL and no issue on other sites or regular downloads I'm wondering if my router is not getting old, I have other issues on my local network so I'll get a new one and see then..
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By different results, i meant internet traffic looking different etc, not that it didnt work :D
And those pics are twitch, not a VOD
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I see two different types of traffic from twitch streams. It's not always those jumps between 100 % and 0 % you've made a screenshot of. It can also be a constant stream of lower traffic. It won't have any spikes in the traffic meter graphic in that case.
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I have never had issues watching twitch but within the past few days 720p-1080p streams are laggy at random times... Is there way to do this without enabling firewall?
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While I understand what this does technically, I was very sure, this would not really work, because I was sure, that there were not 2 specific IP ranges that would solve streaming problems globally.
After I tried it now I went from a slightly stuttering 360p+ stream two two flawlessly running 1080p+ streams. I really hope it stays that way.
This is fantastic and really seems to work!
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I don't get it. I was watching SPL and lagging at 360p. I was watching Demuslim and lagging at 480p, but not at 360p. This morning, I get up and turn on WCS EU, Taeja, and Sage, and they're all working fine at 720p..... I just don't get the randomness......
EDIT: Blocked all the IPs as instructed, enabled adblock, cleared out my browsers, and I'm still stumped.
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