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Is cox throttling uploads to twitch.tv
This is really getting out of hand, I googled that exact phrase and I see there are a ton of threads on that very subject both here and on the twitch.tv forums.
There is obviously something going on with the connection between twitch.tv and cox. Every time I stream it starts out fine and all of a sudden a few minutes later I start dropping frames and then MY WHOLE INTERNET starts going down. I hardly ever lag in games but when this is happening everything slows. Other websites, games, downloads. Speed tests become random and take forever to complete, sometimes i get 1mb upload others 4mb sometimes even up to 11mb. This is all triggered from streaming on twitch or hitbox for that matter.
It appears as if cox is having a hard maintaining constant upload speeds. This has been going on for quite sometime and it's very frustrating because I get a substantial income from entertaining on twitch.
Can someone shed any light on this issue?!? I've called cox countless time and it's the same mind numbing spiel. A tech is coming over on Friday but i doubt he'll get anything done.
ISPs need more competition, I was such a strong advocate of cox and now I'm considering moving away from them. Sad.
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On cox's speed tester I get up to 11mb UPLOAD and 40mb DOWN, I know these are wildly inflated but when I stream on twitch or hitbox (the only two ive tested) the absolute max I use is 3.5mb, so I doubt I'm going over. The times I've called I just get told that I share the internet connection with other people in my area, which is fine, but I've streamed at midnight and I still experience these issues which are very easy to reproduce.
It just seems as if cox can't handle CONSTANT uploads. I had no trouble streaming before until about 3-4 months ago. After doing some googling it appears that a lot of people are experiencing the same thing. I don't exactly what you guys consider throttling but if what I'm experiencing isn't, then I dont know what is.
I start my stream and it'll be fine for a few minutes, then I'll start dropping frames due to packet loss, at this point my game starts lagging out and my internet just seems to go down for the duration I continue to stream and it wont stop until a few minutes AFTER I stop streaming and reset my modem.
This is really annoying because I made a decent amount of money from streaming and I have not been able to do it because of w/e problems are occurring between twitch.tv/cox. All I keep hearing is "we dont throttle" over and over which just leads me to believe you guys probably just call it something else.
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