Dropped frames and low bitrate during streams

[The Honest Tiger]

On 6/22/2025 at 12:03 AM, Netduma Fraser said:

Good to hear, thanks for the update!

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.

[Netduma Fraser]

What platforms are you streaming to and in what resolution/FPS? Anything different between when you started streaming vs 3 hours later - e.g. more people in your home using the internet, hitting general peak time etc?

[The Honest Tiger]

4 minutes ago, Netduma Fraser said:

What platforms are you streaming to and in what resolution/FPS? Anything different between when you started streaming vs 3 hours later - e.g. more people in your home using the internet, hitting general peak time etc?

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.

[Netduma Fraser]

• Are you using H.264 or HEVC?
• Do you have Enforce streaming service bitrate limits enabled?
• You mentioned you're now using Auto for Congestion Control but what percentages are the download/upload set to?
• When streaming, is Traffic Prioritization actually triggerring?
• I still think switching to the DMZ option may help

[The Honest Tiger]

6 hours ago, Netduma Fraser said:

• Are you using H.264 or HEVC?
• Do you have Enforce streaming service bitrate limits enabled?
• You mentioned you're now using Auto for Congestion Control but what percentages are the download/upload set to?
• When streaming, is Traffic Prioritization actually triggerring?
• I still think switching to the DMZ option may help

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?

[Netduma Fraser]

40 minutes ago, The Honest Tiger said:

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?

That's H.264 then I believe, in which case set the bitrate to 20000 then please and see how you go with that. This could be more of a fine tuning of the streaming settings rather than a router issue. Lots of data being sent and received but is it showing the red light to indicate the prioritization is active?

On 6/21/2025 at 6:13 PM, Netduma Fraser said:

take the VM out of modem mode, set the XR with a static/reserved IP on the VM, then set that in the DMZ

[The Honest Tiger]

2 hours ago, Netduma Fraser said:

That's H.264 then I believe, in which case set the bitrate to 20000 then please and see how you go with that. This could be more of a fine tuning of the streaming settings rather than a router issue. Lots of data being sent and received but is it showing the red light to indicate the prioritization is active?

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.