Why is my live stream lagging or buffering

I used to create livestreams with obs or Nvidia Geforce Experience without issues but now i've got buffering issues everytime i livestreaming on YT or anyother platform.. How to fix the issue? My internet speed is excellent i'm getting over 70mb/s and 10-15mb/s upload speed.

I have a 6.6 Mbps rate. I want to do 1080p60, and while most of the time it goes smoothly, it drops several frames and then goes back to a smooth frame rate and then goes sluggish again etc etc

I have more than enough of the required hardware and I use wired internet.

Should I just get a better internet provider/connection?

WAIT NO WIFI! So get a separate Hotspot device??

sir .. my upload speed 45mbps .. so how ,uch bitrate I need to do ??

Can I please email you ASAP?

Hello this video is going to help me a whole lot!!!

Good explaining..........

Can we call you for consultation for our church?

My upload is 300Mbps

Now that we have Wi-Fi 6 pretty much everywhere and 6E is right behind it.

Do we foresee issues with Wi-Fi considering aforementioned?

Been looking for a video like this was about to give up. I'm really stumped with the lousy quality of my livestream. Doing multiple tests and I can't solve the lousy quality picture.
I will try your suggestions. Can a 5G network help too??? Thanks again. I'll sub your channel and look at some more of you vids. This lousy video is driving me nuts!!!

Amazing video. I had my bitrate at max. Always was cutting on and off when live streaming. Now i will lower my bitrate accordingly

Thanks alot

thanks for the sharing..

This is great. Thank you. Can you give me ideas on how to make changes to my Facebook livestream so that there is no buffering for the yogis following my daily livestreams on Facebook. I have great upload and download speeds, use an ethernet cable and no other programs are running when I am livestreaming. How do I know if the problem is from my end or from the viewers end? Thank you!!

Useful info

Hi there thanks for your help after going live on Facebook, I go back to listen there’s a spitting interferance

Hi Ballast, I'm looking for a thread in google on how to fix my live stream in church, I'm Streaming at OBS on FB live. I hope you can help me with this. Here's my problem when I stream in obs, everything looks good -> my stats are in a healthy state, my CPU usage, dropping frames indicators are fine and it says I'm streaming at 0.0 drop frames. But when I play it on my iPhone, the video is jumping and passing about 2-sec intervals every 5 seconds of the stream. But when I hover to the previous part it's working fine, no jumping and lagging. This happens only when I hover in a live state. I tried to monitor this on different phones and only for iphone this happends. but for android its working fine

Here are my Specs and Setting.

HP Omen Laptop i7 9th Gen
Stream at 1280px720p base canvas and output resolution
6000kbps bitrate
2 keyframe interval
x264
Cat 6 Lan Cable Connection

Excellent info. Do you have a video on how to connect audio from PTZ camera to mixer for live streaming. Help please.

Hello I'm using obs & zoom for my facebook live streaming but lately i'm having problem using this two my video in obs is getting slow or lagging affecting my stream become choppy. I hope you could share some solutions, thank you

Wow. Thank you. Finally some one that explained it that was easy to understand. The only problem I have, is that I am starting to live stream weddings, funerals ect, and I don't have access to wired internet, so I have to use wifi. Do you have any tips for maybe keeping wifi speed up. Cheers for the vid. I will he watching more of your vids tonight.

If you set just the output bitrate, the average bitrate will always be higher. By default it’s +160. Why? Because the bitrate you set under output refers to the video stream. The Extra bandwidth is your audio stream.

What if I use hotspot that I’m the only one connected to

Interesting content

I can't watch live football from differentiate links even if i have good internet connection . It buffers so much . If i follow the procedure of this video , will it be solved , pls reply.

Me who doesn't have Ethernet: 😅😆😆😆😂😂😂😭😭😭😭😭

mines 270 download 9 upload

I cant use ethernet, and and I have a wifi adapter for my computer and it run 1900bps (i think thats the abreviation) what can i do to make my streams not buffer, and run smoother?

This was exactly what i needed....Bravo!!!!

i have upload speed of 0.95 with ethernet.. rip guess i cant livestream

Great video! Is 10.60Mbps considered good?

Everyone knows this common stuff already, didnt help me at all. Mine is only certain sites and only live.

Period
End of story
Just don't do it 😃

This has been extremely helpful for me! Thank you!

What about streaming from the consoles like PS4 its fine with me but I still see a small buffer

You tube cuts off during my livestream. Three times it cut off and I had to start over. Any thoughts?

Super informative, concise, and overall just well-done video. Still relevant to this day!

thanks to remark, don't use WIFI to streaming, bless man

There is a lot that I just don't get. Why are you talking about an i7 computer and NOT talking about hardware encoders? - and how do you propose streaming a concert from a church with no internet without using wireless internet? - which is different from wifi except that you then have the issue of how many users the mast has and the risk of being switched between masts. That is not one new quagmire to chart, it is two!

I recently ran into an issue that upon research, many other seem to have also report. A few minutes after starting to livestream OBS completely drops the audio (which is also reflected on the livestream). The audio levels on are still strong on an external monitor (over HDMI out), however OBS doesn't show any levels. It always seems to happen minutes after hitting Start Stream. Any experience with this issue? Thanks!

fantastic thanx!!

My stream isn't glitching or buffering, but my facebook livestream is about 20 seconds behind. Is that normal? Running two cameras through my ATEM mini pro with OBS.

Very professional. Very helpful. Thanks.