New guy here, new help!

[slowmango]

Hi everyone, I'm trying to get streaming to work flawlessly with Twitch.tv, but when I tried to stream using Open Broadcasting Software it shows that I have dropped frames. I thought my upload speed was great, but after some research I found out that I should test my speed at testmy.net instead of speedtest to get an accurate reading. I did another test on speedtest and got 60 Mbps and 27 Mbps for download and upload.

 

Normally, I actually get 35 Mbps, so I'm not sure what's going on there, but I want to figure out the other problem which is I'm getting really slow speeds here. 3.4 Mbps download and 1.8 Mbps upload here, that's 85% and 68% slower than the host average. What the hell is going on here? Why am I not even getting 10% of what I thought I was getting? Everything seems fine for me which is why I'm even more confused. If you need any more information, please ask.

[TriRan]

What is your advertised package from Verizon? And are you experiencing those speeds acrossed multiple mirrors? Also are you on WiFi or wired? What router are you using?

[slowmango]

It should be 75/35 Mbps for the package. By mirrors do you mean different locations from testmy.net? I'm using ethernet. My router's one of those old Linksys black and blue models, not sure the exact one.

[TriRan]

Yes that's precisely what I mean you should run a few tests from each of the testmy.net servers. your router could very well be a bottleneck for you even when hardwired via ethernet it definately should not be limiting your speeds by as much as your seeing though

[slowmango]

Okay, so I did a multithreaded download test and got around 26Mbps, but that's still 1/3 of what I should be getting. My upload test was still crap, around 2-4 Mbps from three different servers. Which is as I said, 10% of what I should be getting.

 

*edit* Also, I'm considering replacing the router, do I need to replace the modem too? Does it make a difference in speed if I plug the ethernet to the wall or the router? (Speaking of which how exactly does the wall outlet for ethernet work?) And I'm looking at this router http://www.amazon.com/Medialink-Wireless-N-Broadband-Internal-Antennas/dp/B00A3YN0Z0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1385092264&sr=8-2&keywords=router

[ybnrmalatall]

Welcome!

[TriRan]

First I would bypass the router see if that actually fixes anything

[xs1]

wait what?  you have a router and modem with verizon ? verizon should only have 1...unless your running more than 4 computers wired & need a second router.  Should be an Actiontec product, like the one im using. https://www.actiontec.com/41.html

 

Im also on the 75/35 plan. I get 85/29 most sites, ill take a test for Testmy.net: 

 

Auto Test: Multithread: 

 

Seperate using Large files: Single thread Im assuming.

 

 

 

C:\Users\.s1>tracert testmy.net

 

Tracing route to testmy.net [75.126.77.87]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

 

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  Wireless_Broadband_Router.home [192.168.1.1]

  2     9 ms     6 ms     9 ms  L100.TAMPFL-VFTTP-39.verizon-gni.net [72.64.153.1]

  3    15 ms    15 ms    13 ms  G0-9-3-4.TAMPFL-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net [130.81.133.196]

  4    13 ms    13 ms    12 ms  so-2-0-0-0.TPA01-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net [130.81.28.214]

  5    27 ms    31 ms    30 ms  0.xe-7-3-0.BR3.ATL4.ALTER.NET [152.63.5.129]

  6    27 ms    30 ms    33 ms  ae17.edge5.Atlanta2.level3.net [4.68.62.37]

  7    44 ms    43 ms    45 ms  4.69.159.58

  8    52 ms    50 ms    46 ms  ae-73-73.ebr3.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.148.253]

  9    49 ms    45 ms    46 ms  ae-2-2.ebr1.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.132.86]

 10    45 ms    44 ms    45 ms  ae-91-91.csw4.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.142]

 11    44 ms    47 ms    43 ms  ae-4-90.edge3.Washington4.Level3.net [4.69.149.210]

 12    43 ms    43 ms    41 ms  SOFTLAYER-T.edge3.Washington4.Level3.net [4.53.116.66]

 13    44 ms    46 ms    50 ms  ae0.bbr01.tl01.atl01.networklayer.com [173.192.18.153]

 14    61 ms    60 ms    61 ms  ae13.bbr02.eq01.dal03.networklayer.com [173.192.18.134]

 15    62 ms    63 ms    60 ms  ae5.dar02.sr01.dal05.networklayer.com [173.192.18.217]

 16    58 ms    61 ms    62 ms  po2.fcr04.sr03.dal05.networklayer.com [173.192.118.151]

 17    62 ms    78 ms    63 ms  75.126.77.87-static.reverse.softlayer.com [75.126.77.87]

 

Trace complete.

 

C:\Users\.s1>

 

Super , super clean route.   

 

"Other" Sites:

 

 

Take it as you will, i just provide the info - I don't want to " downgrade" one site or the other. I'm just showing the variance to hopefully help your conundrum. 

Edited December 8, 2013 by xs1