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> The viewing experience on YouTube is so much better if your Internet is not uber fast. The viewing experience, if you don't include the chat experience, is b
by Bayart 3y ago
> The viewing experience on YouTube is so much better if your Internet is not uber fast.
The viewing experience, if you don't include the chat experience, is better regardless of your connection's speed. YouTube seems to have access to better distribution (you'd think Twitch being an Amazon company they'd be more or less on par), the software works better, the ad policy works better.
- wavemode 3y agoI can only imagine Amazon is being stingy with Twitch's budget. If they wanted to make the stream reliability much better they absolutely could. I experience the same even with gigabit bandwidth in the central US - can't watch the Twitch version (of some event that is streaming to both) reliably even at 480p, yet the YouTube version is buttery smooth at 1080p.
- grepfru_it 3y agogigabit bandwidth is dependent on your latency. your latency is dependent on many factors from your local hardware to the routers between you and your destination. fwiw, i do not experience your claims when viewing twitch
- simfree 3y agoSounds like a peering issue where your ISP and Amazon don't have good peering between each other, yet Google has good peering with plenty of excess bandwidth to get their content (YouTube) to your ISP.