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Originally Posted by plnyyanks

The field had a really slow internet connection. I'd guess the Javits Center charged an arm and a leg for anything better. Most of the match results uploads are pretty big (they include some log data), so they failed often due to the slow speeds. The rankings uploads are much smaller, that's why they were going through regularly. I know that it seemed to work here and there, which is why the results came in chunks. Not much we could've done, sorry.

I want to say the webcast was on a different connection (I can't say for sure), but I doubt it was much better.

I posted a summary of what I saw fieldside as FTAA over on this thread.

Can confirm Javits charges 2 arms, a leg, and a pinky toe for internet speeds acceptable for a sustainable stream and internet in general, even just for one connection drop at the entire event. We, in collaboration with NYC FIRST, tried our best to find a way to make the webcast work in the beginning but finally succumbed to their .27mbps upload speeds and NYC FIRST got it upgraded near the end of the event.
With that said would like to sincerely thank NYC FIRST for spending the large sum it cost to upgrade the line and allow us to stream at a viewable bitrate.

Our apologies for the poor quality the first two days, and the switch from ustream to twitch (since twitch allows you to set a bitrate so we could actually show something before we upgraded) and then the switch back to ustream (after we upgraded the speeds and Twitch decided to ban our channel because it was not gaming related...)
Both the field and the webcast were on the same connection. We hope near the end of the event the quality was much higher and we strive to continue to make the stream better from the beginning next year.


Does anyone know how MAR and NEFIRST stream events without having problems on Twitch because we are fairly upset with them right now.

Again thank you to everyone for your patience as we dealt with the problems and we hope you enjoyed watching Sundays matches.