I know that a lot depends on the actual home internet speed or Wi-Fi, but I wonder how sometimes I can get decent NHL streams that never buffers and some that always does? Traffic, source? For example, there are local networks that I can get streams for and they always lag more than their out-of-country equivalent. Thanks for your input!
Thousands of people overloading the server the stream is hosted on will do it
I'm assuming a lot of folks are jumping on our French streams of Habs games to watch them in our language rather than the English versions. I just wonder at what point our personal internet speeds impacts that.
The streams are live so you don't get torrent speeds with decentralized distribution.
Even illegal paid services lag when it comes to live broadcasts. The ones where you pay a low fee and get all legal streams illegally.
Live Sports without lag, good image quality, free, and immediately available when they start playing the sports game is the holy grail of online piracy, the last frontier.
I can get around the quality not being top, I honestly care more with consistency. I didn't find a way to reduce quality to improve buffering other than slowing down the speed. But nobody wants to watch a sports game at 75% speed lol 🤣
You can't change quality to gain latency. The servers are doing that and they maxing out their connection speed since their ISP isn't Amazon AWS that dynamically changes speeds and pulls more servers to go online when there is an influx of users wanting to watch the game live.
Pirates are paying a monthly fee for 1 speed and they won't upgrade since they don't have much money and if they did have donations or subscriptions they want to save and keep it themselves.
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Youtube has a lot of very expensive hardware and mirrors that makes that happen.
Oddly, a pirate streaming server doesn't have those resources.
Anything can happen outside your network.
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