Re:A YouTube built for gamers
by thefreeman on Saturday June 13, 2015 @09:31AM
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You are confusing megabits and megabytes. You likely read that it requires minimum 6 megabytes per second to stream 1080p/60fps. That would be 42 megabits. And that is a minimum. Depending on your settings you could need much more then that. Not to mention Australia has notoriously bad internet in general.
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Re:A YouTube built for gamers
by fernandotakai on Saturday June 13, 2015 @11:20AM
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I have 150/50 fiber internet in brazil -- 50% of the time, i cannot watch a 1080p twitch stream, while i can watch a youtube livestream.
twitch infrastructure is notoriously bad for anyone that is not american.
Re:A YouTube built for gamers
by Dylan16807 on Saturday June 13, 2015 @02:15PM
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Often twitch gets terrible for me until I load a VPN, and I'm in America. They're probably getting screwed on peering.
Re:A YouTube built for gamers
by batiudrami on Saturday June 13, 2015 @10:10PM
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No, it's six megabit. You can right click on a stream and choose "playback stats" and it will give you a live bitrate as well as some other details. On my connection I can comfortably stream 4K YouTube or Netflix, but Twitch shits itself at anything more than 720p.