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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022

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Twitch broadcasting streaming issue

Hello Xfinity Support,

I use your service to stream my gameplay to a stream platform called Twitch. in the past month I have been having an issue where randomly though the stream I would lose all connection to the twitch servers. My internet stays connected it just the connection to Twitch that drops.

I've already contacted you before and had a technician come out and replace the lines and install a brand new modem along with a new 3ft cat8 cable installed 1 week ago (1 week into the issue and no change). 
I'm begging for some assistance. I'm not that good with these type of issue which is why i have reached out for help.

I have been working on this issue with a few people and ended up running a wireshark packet capture on my computer and I had someone look into it for me.

Below is the response they have given me. 
They say that some packets are going missing somewhere after they leave my computer and before they get to the Twitch servers.
Since you have already installed a new router I don't think my router is blocking packets and I have been told that generaly by default the router doesn't block outbound traffic usless configured to do so, which leaves your network blocking my packets.

PCAP Response:
"Two connections went to Twitch.

Connection 1 (My PC 10.X.X.X and Twitch:99.181.96.44) This is the one that stops in the middle.

It wasn't a clean connection because Twitch keeps sending requests for missing packets. The packets are in your capture. The packet loss is somewhere between your capture point and Twitch. The TCP session recovers and stays up.

11.9 seconds - Twitch starts sending TCP window zero or don't send me any data.
12.2 seconds - The 10.X.X.X device starts sending TCP window probes. Twitch responds with TCP window zero or don't send me any data. I am here, but don't send me anything.
26.1 seconds - a second connection is established to Twitch (10.10.X.X and Twitch:99.181.96.197). The first session is still connected and Twitch is still sending TCP window size 0.
31.0 seconds - Twitch stops responding to TCP window probes or sending any data for connection 1.
40.3 second - 10.X.X.X drops connection 1.

Connection 2 (10.10.X.X and Twitch:99.181.96.197)

It wasn't a clean connection because Twitch keeps sending requests for missing packets. The packets are in your capture. The packet loss is somewhere between your capture point and Twitch. The TCP session recovers and stays up.

31.1 seconds -10.X.X.X sends RTMP message to deleteStream message.
31.2 seconds - connection 2 is released. It looks like a normal release."


For your reference, i have listed the below hardware in my PC so my specs should not be an issue: 

Processor - Intel i9-11900k
Graphics Card - RTX 3080 OC 12GB
Motherboard - ASUS ROG STRIX Z590-E
RAM - Corsair Vengeance 32GB 3200Mhz
AIO - Corsair H150I Elite Capellix

Please help me with this issue as im stuck. Twitch support wont help as they just say contact my ISP.

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3 years ago

Interesting. I, too, am having issues with my twitch stream and it only started at beginning of October (was fine before). I have not looked into packets or anything, our current theory is upstream snr. Wireshark confuses me but maybe i should look into that. I'll be following this thread. Good luck 

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3 years ago

Hello, @Schmidttyb, we will do all we can to help. We can make sure your internet service is working ideally. When you lose connection to Twitch are you experiencing a connection issue at all sites and all devices? Most of the time if this type of issue is Xfinity related you would lose connection on all sites. 

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@XfinityJosephA​ Thank you for the quick reply and I apologize for such a late reply myself. It is indeed only to Twitch and have gone through rigorous troubleshooting to narrow down what is going on. When contacting twitch, they referred me to dealing directly with you indicating that my ISP would have contact with "twitch's video engineering team". At this point, support teams between Wireshark, OBS, and Twitch have all pointed me to this direction. We recently upgraded our internet to handle a greater upload speed incase that was the issue but the issue did not subside. People have mentioned on wireshark that since the packets are lost in route that lines in the area may be effected and to me this is an extreme issue due to just upgrading my speeds and wanting to upgrade my internet to fiber in the future but now I have great concern if my issue is due to this. So far, streaming on youtube does not seem to have the same issue which raises suspicion not to mention that I have streamed for a month to 2 months without any issue on twitch. Additionally my download speeds are about half of what I pay for which is unacceptable but my upload speeds are strong and steady from the test we have ran. This is nearing the 3 week mark which means that almost an entire month of income has been effected. If you need anything on my behalf, please let me know as I am willing to supply any information needed to resolve this issue as quickly as possible. 

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I certainly understand and my money isn't funny either. With the download speeds not being where they need to be either, there may be a signal issue that is causing the packet loss. Have you checked modem's signal logs and error logs to see if anything is looking off? If you can send us a direct message, I can also check the signal levels of the connection as well as the area to see if there is anything that could be causing it.

To send a direct message:

Click "Sign In" if necessary

• Click the "Direct messaging" icon near the top right of the page

• Click the "New message" (pencil and paper) icon

• Type "Xfinity Support" in the "To:" line and select "Xfinity Support" from the drop-down list which appears. The "Xfinity Support" graphic replaces the "To:" line

• Type your message in the text area near the bottom of the window

• Press Enter to send it

Visitor

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I have not due to the issue happening a week before and now after the technician replacing my lines and modem. I would love to share you this info but could you inform me on how to obtain these logs first as I'm unsure how to.

Retired Employee

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That's a great question and I can walk you through checking the logs. One of the experts on here posted some great information here on what to look for under the "checking signal levels" and "errors" section. Going to the URL http://10.0.0.1/, is where you can check those for Xfinity modems. If you haven't change the username and password, the default ones will be Username: admin Password: password.

Visitor

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Perfect, I am familiar with logging into gateway. Now that I am logged in, what exactly would you like for me to send? I referred to the expert page but am unsure how to navigate the gateway to find you these numbers. I appreciate all the help as I hope this can give some clarity on the issue. 

Contributor

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128 Messages

3 years ago

Like Joseph is implying, be sure to try streaming on YouTube etc first.  That being said, I tried yt and discord streaming and confirmed my issue is not specific to twitch, but worth crossing that off the list of potential causes

Visitor

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3 years ago

I am having very simliar issues w/ streaming on Twitch. @XfinityNicolas If you could advise that'd be great.

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