There are a things you can try to see if this solves the problem: - don't do full P2P, keep twitch as a central server, and delegate only part of the load to P

There are a things you can try to see if this solves the problem: - don't do full P2P, keep twitch as a central server, and delegate only part of the load to P2P to those with good connection, with progressive roll in as buffering grows - get a 2 minutes padding between the live and actual video streaming, so that you have a decent buffer and margin of maneuver to switch back to twitch server - create an OBS clone that does streaming and video client with less ads as you said, but that act as an optimized node that works even when you don't what a video (the more you accumulate up time, the less you see adds, you get points, etc)