Low Network usage while watching live streams?

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you1953

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Hello,
so i was wondering if anyone can explain me why do i keep getting low network usage everytime im watching a live stream at 1080p60 or even 720p sometimes too on twitch? but when im downloading something its always att full speed, or when i'm watching youtube at highest quality it doesn't buffer or anything.. here's a screenshot
https://imgur.com/a/cu72kI5
 
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failboat
The streams use TCP and they do it intermittently.

Just watch your loaded bar on youtube. It preloads about 15sec in advance, once you are 5 seconds away it starts loading the next 15sec.
It's going to max your connection for a few seconds at a time. If it's congested at the time it wants to preload it will buffer.

Downloads are also TCP and they will use the max amount of bandwidth they can all the time.

When you download and stream it's a 50/50 which one will drop the packet when you fill your buffer.
packets are serviced FIFO. When a packet gets dropped on TCP it signals the sender to reduce bandwidth.
Bandwidth is always constantly increasing and decreasing which is called the TCP sawtooth on a maxed connection.

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The streams use TCP and they do it intermittently.

Just watch your loaded bar on youtube. It preloads about 15sec in advance, once you are 5 seconds away it starts loading the next 15sec.
It's going to max your connection for a few seconds at a time. If it's congested at the time it wants to preload it will buffer.

Downloads are also TCP and they will use the max amount of bandwidth they can all the time.

When you download and stream it's a 50/50 which one will drop the packet when you fill your buffer.
packets are serviced FIFO. When a packet gets dropped on TCP it signals the sender to reduce bandwidth.
Bandwidth is always constantly increasing and decreasing which is called the TCP sawtooth on a maxed connection.

Management is called QoS, certain algo's can prioritize what is getting dropped.
Other than that you can manage your own downloads when streaming, throttle yourself, or pay for more bandwidth.
It's very difficult to setup QoS when streaming is using a high % of bandwidth.
 
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