WAN Show Advice.

[DaCoder]

You guys need to do something to fix some issues on the WAN show.

 

You need:

A way that the mod people monitoring chat can tell you if it is up or down.(Phone is good)

Stable (NON POTATO) internet. Screw Shaw.

Somewhat simpler setup for audio, (maybe not a ton of PC's with different output's / input's)

Finally, please try out FFSplit, it is way better than XSplit. (And free)

 

I hope that this gets read, and if you disagree, please comment below.

Thank you.

[iruixos]

+1, I hope Linus & Co. see this!

 

EDIT: I'm fine with their audio setup, but the other suggestions are good.

Edited August 24, 2013 by Vettexl

[Excon]

It don't think any of this is necessary.

 

Edit: other than fixing the ISP issue which they are working on.

[NinjaStyle013]

Stream isn't even available on mobile, it's gone real bad this week.

[Wferr]

Shaw is the worst :/ 

http://linusmediagroup.squarespace.com/history/

[Wferr]

I wonder when we are going to piss shaw off so much that they will give him a decent connection.

[DaCoder]

I doubt Shaw will give in unless the whole community raises a ruckus. But Tech savvy people aren't exactly the most riotous of groups.

[Villain]

Most of these are much easier said than done. They've done a lot of work to improve the overall quality of the stream, and in my opinion it's at the level it needs to be, the only caveat is their ISP which they've been trying to work with. I'm sure they would much rather make it work with them rather than having to switch; which unfortunately may not happen. I think it's great people are giving advice, but at the same time they know what they are doing, and they know the problems and solutions, it's just a matter of finding the time to do it. 

[mr_pants66]

Shaw just has to pick up their game, then the stream will be back up to scratch.

[DaCoder]

Most of these are much easier said than done. They've done a lot of work to improve the overall quality of the stream, and in my opinion it's at the level it needs to be, the only caveat is their ISP which they've been trying to work with. I'm sure they would much rather make it work with them rather than having to switch; which unfortunately may not happen. I think it's great people are giving advice, but at the same time they know what they are doing, and they know the problems and solutions, it's just a matter of finding the time to do it. 

 

I did a livestream for a while, I only had about 200 viewers, but I didn't ever get throttled. And it was a simple setup, all content was on one pc.

[Power]

[TheMail]

You guys need to do something to fix some issues on the WAN show.

 

You need:

A way that the mod people monitoring chat can tell you if it is up or down.(Phone is good)

Stable (NON POTATO) internet. Screw Shaw.

Somewhat simpler setup for audio, (maybe not a ton of PC's with different output's / input's)

Finally, please try out FFSplit, it is way better than XSplit. (And free)

 

I hope that this gets read, and if you disagree, please comment below.

Thank you.

If there was something they could've done with the internet, they would've done it.

[DaCoder]

 

LOL. Exactly!

[TheMail]

I did a livestream for a while, I only had about 200 viewers, but I didn't ever get throttled. And it was a simple setup, all content was on one pc.

200 viewers =/= almost 5000 viewers

[DaCoder]

Also, the phone idea was the most important, since it was first. They never know the status of the livestream, so why not have mod call them when something happens?

[DaCoder]

200 viewers =/= almost 5000 viewers

 

Well, obviously 200 /= 5000, but this does not mean that what i said is any less important.

[JORDANonPC]

 

that was brilliant 

[NinjaStyle013]

Guys stop with the damn shaw bashing its so annonying

[DaCoder]

that was brilliant 

 

Uh? What was supposed to be quoted?

[24Noobsteri]

Well, obviously 200 /= 5000, but this does not mean that what i said is any less important.

And amount of viewers has nothing to do with this.

[TheKurtster]

A good piece of advice is to NOT EVER IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE EVER USE THE MONEY SUCKING, LUNCH STEALING, THROTTLING, BANDWIDTH MUNCHING DIRTY SCUMBAGS THAT IS SHAW MEDIA!

 

Thank you.

That is all.

[JORDANonPC]

Uh? What was supposed to be quoted?

It was a video but I didn't want the full video to show up again because it annoys me seeing the same picture of video quoted 

[EtaCarinae]

I did a livestream for a while, I only had about 200 viewers, but I didn't ever get throttled. And it was a simple setup, all content was on one pc.

 

 

200 viewers =/= almost 5000 viewers

 

Twitch.tv is hosting the stream. The viewer count has absolutely no effect on Linus' upstream. Linus is simply streaming to Twitch's servers, who then provide the stream to we viewers.

I dare say there is a routing issue between Twitch's servers & Shaw for this to effect two different physical locations, but both using Shaw's pipes.

I don't believe they're being throttled.

[JORDANonPC]

I don't believe they're being throttled.

Linus seems to believe otherwise 

[DaCoder]

It was a video but I didn't want the full video to show up again because it annoys me seeing the same picture of video quoted 

 

Ah, i will take note not to quote whole videos, sorry man.