Girls on streamate: Did getting better upload speed improve your room?
What I mean is did you see the amount of people in your room go up and your placement improve?
I am asking this because my current upload speed is 2 mbps, although according to the encoder I seem to be going at a slower rate then that. I am with Rogers and currently pay $100/month. My download speed is 75 mbps and upload is maxed out at 2 mbps. This is the highest package they offer.
Recently I found out Bell Canada has brought a 15/10 package to my area. They offer 15 mbps down (which is slower then my current 75) and 10 mbps upload (which is much more then my current 2). I was with Bell over a year ago and my upload was only going at .8 mbps, this was before their change. Now that they offer an upload of 10 mbps I want to get back with them.
Last year I had one of those bundle packages with Bell. Cell phone/internet/phone. I got rid of the internet and home phone at the same time. This is where the problems came in. I was NEVER late with my bill. When I quit their service I was instructed over the phone to pay the balance owing to my cell account number (lets call this account A) and not my "one bill" account number (call this account B). This made no sense to me at all, but I did what the person said. The next month I got a statement from them for account A with an over payment balance of $373. I also got a statement for account B saying I owed $373! I was PISSED! So I called them immediately to see if the over payment balance could be moved from account A to account B seeing as they instructed me not to pay account B and to pay account A. They told me no unless I closed out account A. I did not want to close out account A because I still had my cell phone on that account. Each person I spoke to gave me some whack answer and I really felt like I was being pushed around. I would sometimes be on the phone with them for hours. Furthermore I was tired of speaking to people in Thailand and India who had such thick accents and had no idea what they were talking about.
I am pretty satisfied with Rogers other then my crappy upload speed. They are more expensive then Bell, but at least their billing practices are pretty straight forward and whenever I call I speak to Canadians/Americans and never wait more then 20 minutes. I am in a 2 yr contract with Rogers (I still have 1 yr left).
Well I thought about it for a while and yesterday I bit the bullet and called up Bell. They made me clear up that $373 first and then set me up with an install date for Monday. I will keep my Rogers service because my contract still exist with them. I am doing a "pay as you go" monthly account with Bell so I can cancel at any time. Bell internet is going to be $30/month. So my total internet bill will be $130/month. Kinda pricey I know. But if it works as planned that extra $30 won't be much.
I know when my upload speed was only .8 mbps I was stuck on page 2 and would get 5-10 people in my free chat MAX. As soon as I upgraded to 2 mbps I jumped to page 1. The max amount of members I have seen in my room at any given time was around 50. A normal night is around 10-15 in my room at any given time. I usually sit somewhere between row 3-6, but IMO the row you are on does not really dictate how many members are in your room as I have seen people on the middle row with like 80+ members in their room yet a girl on row one with only 10 (both on at the same time).
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Also I notice in the encoder my fps does drop down to 15 fps (I see this in the encoder log) even though I have it set to 29.97 (the new settings). I am pretty sure this solely has to do with my upload speed, which according to the encoder is going at around 1200 kbps.
Re: Girls on streamate: Did getting better upload speed improve your room?
When I upgraded by internet from an abysmal .32 upload to a 4.5 ish upload I didn't notice much of a difference in placement/traffic, maybe a few spots, but I did already have high placement beforehand so it could help. BUT, I did notice most of my system glitches/crashes (especially during goldshow countdowns) stopped. So in that regard the upgrade has been a life saver. Personally though, I don't think paying for a crazy internet bill every month is worth it if you are not running a bunch of high traffic goldshows. I wouldn't have bothered upgrading mine to the package I did (fastest/most expensive I can get in my area) if I was only doing private/exclusives.
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Peachesxo
When I upgraded by internet from an abysmal .32 upload to a 4.5 ish upload I didn't notice much of a difference in placement/traffic, maybe a few spots, but I did already have high placement beforehand so it could help. BUT, I did notice most of my system glitches/crashes (especially during goldshow countdowns) stopped. So in that regard the upgrade has been a life saver. Personally though, I don't think paying for a crazy internet bill every month is worth it if you are not running a bunch of high traffic goldshows. I wouldn't have bothered upgrading mine to the package I did (fastest/most expensive I can get in my area) if I was only doing private/exclusives.
I don't do gold shows mainly because that requires exerting more energy (ie having to constantly prompt/beg guys to join, etc) to make the same amount of money. At least that was my experience. 2-3 failed count downs just to make one show, essentially taking around 40 minutes total to make $35. I would rather sit there and tease/casually talk to some dudes in the hopes of getting one good spender. I guess its just a personal preference. Don't get me wrong, gold shows can work if you have the right amount of people and serious spenders at the right time.
I recall an email I had with support a few months ago that stated that higher upload speeds means potentially more total viewers in your room.
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My speeds are consistently awesome, with 25-30 down and 8.79 Mbps upload as of this very second. The only thing that seems to affect my traffic (other than working a consistent schedule) is whether or not I use the encoder. No encoder = graveyard room for me, even though my speeds are phenomenal and I broadcast in HD.
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CourtneyRaine
My speeds are consistently awesome, with 25-30 down and 8.79 Mbps upload as of this very second. The only thing that seems to affect my traffic (other than working a consistent schedule) is whether or not I use the encoder. No encoder = graveyard room for me, even though my speeds are phenomenal and I broadcast in HD.
What's the traffic in your room like? I see some girls with like 40-80+ in their rooms sometimes, and not everyone of them is some porn star celebrity. Don't get me wrong having 10-15 people in my free chat isn't bad BUT its a heck of a lot easier to sell when you have a very full room opposed to a small room.
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Faster speeds didn't help to get more traffic into my room. And I have the fastest I am aware of in my area, over 65+ down and always between 11-15+ up. But I don't have the required computer specs either. Maybe those girls with soo many just work the room differently is what I think.
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Well if anything I will try and see if this higher upload speed makes a difference for a month. Bell does not have contracts on its internet, other then 30 days notice of cancellation. If it works out I may just cancel my service with Rogers, even though there is a contract from what I understand if I keep something on the account (ie cable or something) I do not have to pay a termination fee for internet. Or I could just bump my service level down with them.
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OJenni!
What's the traffic in your room like? I see some girls with like 40-80+ in their rooms sometimes, and not everyone of them is some porn star celebrity. Don't get me wrong having 10-15 people in my free chat isn't bad BUT its a heck of a lot easier to sell when you have a very full room opposed to a small room.
A few months ago when I was still able to use the encoder without crashing all the time? 5-10 members, which doesn't sound like a lot, but I was averaging 25-40% of my time in private chat. Now without the encoder but broadcasting in HD 0-5 members at a time, and averaging about 10% or less time in private chat. I also don't have the required computer specs and using the encoder has become pretty much impossible, even though I cam on other sites without a problem and can still cam on SM using the drop down HD High option. With the HD option I would still get the HD icon but my placement went from 5th row to 3rd page. And this is why I quit Sm :)
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Jenni, I just remembered this but it could maybe help you out with getting out of your contract without having to pay some ridiculous fee. I wasn't with Rogers but all the Canadian internet/phone people seem to operate similarly so maybe it's worth a shot to mention it to them. When I had my shitty upload speed I was on a 1 year contract with Telus and none of their internet plans offered anything close to what I needed. I expected to have to pay a big fee for cancelling the contract 10 months early, BUT because my reason for having to cancel the contract was that no plan they offered had the speeds necessary for me to WORK, they never charged me for it.