The Honest Tiger

Well an entire week without any issues so looks like it all came down to stability issues on streamlab's side. Thank you for the support though Fraser, hopefully you won't have to hear from me in the distant future.

Just a quick update, seems I was right in the beginning, there was stability issues at streamlabs. Dual output seemed fine tonight but I'll get back to you maybe Friday to check.

I know, you'd think it'd be smart enough to choose one over the other and let's not celebrate yet, I need to test this theory.

My word I think I figured it out, basically, my youtube stream is using it's own stream key and url so my pc is trying to stream to youtube directly and via streamlabs at the same time.

Personally I think it might be the streamlabs servers. The way it works is rather than overloading my pc by it handling the data to two different platforms, the data is sent to the streamlabs servers which then distributes it to the platforms. By doing solo platforms, I'm streaming directly to the servers myself rather than through streamlabs via dual output.

PC wired to VM as you suggested.

Well I can stream to tiktok but youtube just buffers like crazy now.

Yeah my PC has a reserved IP as do all the devices and yeah I put that to open and I'll give that a try.

Yeah, the hub is in router mode with the router in DMZ, apart from that, I've made no other changes other than the ones you suggested but I undid when it didn't work.

So I just started a stream, the LED showed for like 10 seconds then stopped for the gaming console rule but nothing for the rule 443 rule.

Nothing, no packets sent or received and I know how to set up the rules... auto congestion control, PC traffic prioritization set up as a games console and rule 443 set up for both source and end point but no LED.

So, an interesting development that I don't believe should have happened. With congestion set to auto and the 443 and console rules set, Traffic Prioritization was not activating but I managed a 3 hour stream with no issues. However, when I switch congestion to Always and removed those rules, I literally couldn't connect to any sort of server at all.

What about the wireless setting? Also, am I applying this to WAN?

So I'm setting my PC up with the Games Console option then adding another rule for port 1 to 443 for source and 443 for destination?

Pretty much yeah but the problem just happened again now during stream with the settings you told me to do a few days ago with 20000kbps and I made a rule were every port is opened for my pc and it was active last night and even that didn't work. How can youtube not be receiving enough video for smooth streaming at 20000kbps??

Well after 2 hours, the only message I'm getting is from youtube asking me to use the recommended 6500 kbps and now that you mention it, no, no data has been sent or recevied.

I'm using my graphics card and all the settings are default apart from the bitrate and 70% congestion on both and yeah, loads of data being sent and received and finally, what exactly am I putting into DMZ?

youtube and tiktok, 1920x1080 for youtube and 1080x1920 for tiktok both at 30fps and there is literally no difference between time starting and 3 hours later.

Update So I thought I found the fix when I was using the 2.5gig port on my hub even though I'm not on the package providing that port so I connected the router to a 1gig port which fixed the no internet issue. I then also read that when multi streaming using streamlabs, their servers take the single data then spread it out to the platforms meaning in my case I have to send out double the data so I put my bit rate to 16000. 3 hours of smooth streaming until it wasn't.

Okay so I was able to stream tonight with no issues, hub in modem mode, I used the 1gig port instead of the 2.5gig on the hub. Router is being used as the HDCP and I turned off streaming to tiktok so I only streamed to youtube tonight.

The router itself wasn't getting the internet connection but as soon as I reactivated DHCP and restarted the router and hub, the internet connection was re-established.

Okay so after reserving an IP for all devices and disabling DHCP and rebooting, my router wasn't getting any internet connection at all. Turned DHCP back on and the connection is restored.

There is no option to extend the lease and I have it set to the standard 6000 kbps and every now and then it declines to 0 then spikes back to 6000 and repeats this pattern. I honestly think the HDCP has a problem on my router.

I already have and it still does it.

Literally every 4 minutes, you can see where it says "DHCP Lease" and congestion control is at auto and traffic prioritization is set to my PC for streaming.