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    I am going to spend the time that I could of worked on SM tonight but was unable to because no one could hear me because of streaming problems by looking for other webcam sites to work at. I know my mic works, I know my cam works, I know the computer has enough power. I know the problem is on their side.

    Some days everything is just fine, other days there is no point really even logging on at all! I have bills to pay. If I wanted to take a chance on whether or not I was going to make money, I'd be gambling in Las Vegas.
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    Sorry guys, I just had to get that out since there is really no one else I can talk to that would really understand.

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    Default Re: SM, I have had it!

    I understand. I haven't been loggin on because of all the issues lately. I used to get so excited about camming on SM and never thought I'd wanna go anywhere else.

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    I had one guy tell me he couldn't see me on SM. Like it was just a blank screen where my stream should have been. I told him other guys hadn't had a problem with this so it was likely a problem at his end. Part of me thought he might have been getting off on thinking I'm not being watched or something, but this thread now has made me reconsider.. Some guys have told me they can't hear anything either.

    The most pissing off thing though, is how lately, I DON'T get the countdown when a private show has ended!!!

    I've had about two instances these past two night when I've been booted straight back into free chat with no time at all to get myself together again. It's embarrassing and I worry it could result in ME getting punished for a problem Streamate has if people see me with my goods out, thrusting myself with a dildo in public chat!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Incantatious View Post
    I had one guy tell me he couldn't see me on SM. Like it was just a blank screen where my stream should have been. I told him other guys hadn't had a problem with this so it was likely a problem at his end. Part of me thought he might have been getting off on thinking I'm not being watched or something,
    I had a regular tell me that today so he may have been telling the truth. No one else said anything about it but a lot of people were coming in and just sitting there for a minute than leaving. Unless it was on his end and it was the same guy in both our rooms. Lol.

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    UGH same here, problems up the ying yang lately.

    The worst part is is that a majority of customers place the blame on us. Literally, we are just pretty faces on the camera, we do not have anything to do with the technical issues on the site, and there is nothing we can do to fix it.

    It gets frustrating especially if the customer decides to place the blame on YOU, not the site, and gives you a low rating bad review, etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyberstripper View Post
    The worst part is is that a majority of customers place the blame on us. Literally, we are just pretty faces on the camera, we do not have anything to do with the technical issues on the site, and there is nothing we can do to fix it.

    It gets frustrating especially if the customer decides to place the blame on YOU, not the site, and gives you a low rating bad review, etc.
    ^ THIS!

    When the guy who couldn't see me was talking me to me, I was thinking like, "Well s'cuse me whilst I plunge the behind-the-scenes framework of Streamate and rewire a few things. I, as a performer have the means and the entitlement do that. O yeah, and all the other guys who can see me and who are potentially paying clients can all wait, whilst I tend to you. You who has not, and may not, pay me a goddamn dime!" Pff.

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    I see guys doing that a lot on MFC. Complaining about how the model needs to fix something when the problem is actually on HIS end...lol. It makes me think about how people say that men don't like to admit to being lost when driving around. LOL.

    And maybe if guys stopped having so many windows open on their computer with different chat rooms and YouPorn (and YouTube...lol!), that would help solve some of their issues.

    But seriously...the tech issues with Streamate suck. I think SM and MFC probably have a lot of tech issues because they're two extremely popular (crowded?) cam sites, maybe?
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    Default Re: SM, I have had it!

    I'm new to camming and was planning on doing streamate...is that a bad idea now? Are there any decent alternatives? I imagine most cam sites have their problems.....

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    Default Re: SM, I have had it!

    SM is still awesome, and I'd still absolutely recommend it to any camgirl.

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    Yeah, you can have your issues with it, but for me it's like having issues with a husband that I don't plan on divorcing.
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    Default Re: SM, I have had it!

    yea, i keep getting guys telling me all the time that they can barely hear me and my volume is always adjusted way up too. this is really irritating to me, especially when i got a bunch of them telling me that and there is nothing i can do. luckily i haven't gotten any bad ratings from it but seriously sm needs to erase those kinds of ratings from models profiles cuz it is not very accurate and fair to leave it like that. that's bs.

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    I just came on here so I could bitch about streamate, but you beat me to it.

    I'm having major troubles now. I'm still working for the rent money that was due today and I'm still $475 short. Haven't made a penny only because the site has been freezing. Well, I have no clue what's going on now...

    On my end, it looks more perfect than its ever looked. Lots of people say its freezing and nobody would take me private. Then the sound would cut out and having all the similar problems. But now something really messed up is happening...

    I've been camming all day since 10am and its 1:53am now, I made $19.78 when usually I make $50 an hr. I only cammed 7 of those hours but have been messing around with my equipment all day. Nobody has told me the cam froze at all today. But toward the end of the night, I didn't get a single private. EVERY single private I had since about 6pm lasted only a split-second. I mean, someone would click private and within just enough time for me to say "hi'' they would get out of private. Every single person who joined the room. The longest private I had was probably 4-5 seconds. Sometimes I would get kicked off instead. As soon as someone clicks private, I would get a Streamate Error that tells me to contact support of the problem continues. But most of the time the customer would log out immediately. Not a single person would come back and explain what happened. I just really want to know what's going on. Not sure if my cam freezes as soon as I get a private or if they get the same Error message from Streamate and it kicks them off or what. So many times today, I got guys saying "are you ready for private bb?" and then suddenly I get an error message and get kicked out of free chat too. So I think sometimes that happens right when someone tries to click on private. Also, 9 times out of 10, if someone asks me if I'm ready for private, they end up taking me private immediately. But today, 9 times out of 10, if someone asked me if I was ready, they wouldn't take me private. Maybe because the site kicks them off before they hit private? I don't know what to do because its the only site I'm on daily pay and I promised to pay my land lord everything on the 5th and its bad enough I'm borrowing $200 from my 17 year old brother. I have no clue what to do and its really bothering me.

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    Default Re: SM, I have had it!

    I cammed on SM for a few hours today and twice in private shows I was booted out and got an error message from SM trying again in an hour, I NEED MONEYYYY

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    How many issues is it going to take for SM to take notice? Awesome cam site that I love, I just wished they loved us back =/
    Lol like that's ever gonna happen

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    Quote Originally Posted by bubblegumbitch View Post
    yea, i keep getting guys telling me all the time that they can barely hear me and my volume is always adjusted way up too. this is really irritating to me, especially when i got a bunch of them telling me that and there is nothing i can do. luckily i haven't gotten any bad ratings from it but seriously sm needs to erase those kinds of ratings from models profiles cuz it is not very accurate and fair to leave it like that. that's bs.
    You know, you may have a mic that adjusts itself for "optimal volume control" Mine does something wacky to cut down on ambient noise so if you stop talking (as one does in a conversation) it readjusts itself and then it takes a second to catch up so when I start talking again it cuts off the first syllable or two of the first thing I say. Very annoying.

    I got around it by constantly playing music on a low volume. The changes in the music aren't something it can tune out as ambient sound so it keeps itself on all the time. You might want to try experimenting with background noise and stuff like that while you're not actively working just to see what happens.


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    Quote Originally Posted by amberose View Post
    I'm new to camming and was planning on doing streamate...is that a bad idea now? Are there any decent alternatives? I imagine most cam sites have their problems.....
    Seeing that I made $6 yesterday after two frustrating hours of having people complain how much my cam sucks and my trying to look sexy and do my own tech support at the same time and then finally giving up. I can't say I recommend SM at this point.

    But the problem is, I don't know if there is any decent alternatives that I can recommend. Since I just started less than a month ago I really don't know much of anything. I am going to try to get my application into Naked.com in the next few days when I can get a hold of a scanner. I tried MFC, but they never got back to me. As far as I know, these are the only two other sites that don't really have chargebacks. I'd love if someone would correct me though on this, because options seem depressingly limited.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Incantatious View Post
    I had one guy tell me he couldn't see me on SM. Like it was just a blank screen where my stream should have been. I told him other guys hadn't had a problem with this so it was likely a problem at his end. Part of me thought he might have been getting off on thinking I'm not being watched or something, but this thread now has made me reconsider.. Some guys have told me they can't hear anything either.

    The most pissing off thing though, is how lately, I DON'T get the countdown when a private show has ended!!!

    I've had about two instances these past two night when I've been booted straight back into free chat with no time at all to get myself together again. It's embarrassing and I worry it could result in ME getting punished for a problem Streamate has if people see me with my goods out, thrusting myself with a dildo in public chat!
    I've had this exact problem! Be careful though, because when it's happened to me, the customers could already see me in Guest chat for minutes before I was booted to Guest with no countdown, sometimes even when I got the countdown. The only reason I know this is because when I came back to Guest I saw "I see you fucking yourself!", "I thought you couldnt do that?", "Yeah bb" blah blah blah! I was so humiliated. So just be careful. If he's not responding to you fast enough or his camera is frozen or just looks like he's sittin there doin nothin, just stop the show, because chances are he already left and you are back in Guest doing a free show for good for nothing beggars.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breannasparks View Post
    How many issues is it going to take for SM to take notice? Awesome cam site that I love, I just wished they loved us back =/
    Lol like that's ever gonna happen
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    Please girls, don't (start rant) and then (/end rant)! Hell, FIRE AWAY and don't fucking stop! If anyone thinks you're just blowing off steam, they will never take you seriously. There. Look, she got it all out of her system! We all good to go now? Can we get on with our lives? NO! FUCK YOU! I'm not ranting, I'm putting it out there and I want a fucking answer and I want this to change and I am fed the fuck up of all the bullshit! FIX this shit and fucking NOW!

    And I'm not even PMSsing!

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    Shywebcamgirl,
    Not yelling at you. I'm on a sort of rampage against all these sites right now. I've had it with the way I'm treated by ALL of them! I think you're absolutely right; it's not just you, not just your connection. I have had problems myself in the last month or so, with members getting booted out of private/exclusive constantly! It's a miracle if they are able to stay IN video! I've also noticed a major decline in traffic. I can't recall ever hitting the three digit mark of guests in my room, but it used to be damn near close to that. Now, I'm lucky to have more than a handful! My listing on the site (though 5-star) is below hosts with 4 stars (and we offer the same things; hd, audio, no PartyChat). Used to offer PartyChat but I stopped. I believe that to be the very reason members stopped spending money. Streamate have all the stats, so they MUST know what they're doing!
    Anyway, good luck out there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by amanda36c View Post
    Shywebcamgirl,
    Not yelling at you. I'm on a sort of rampage against all these sites right now. I've had it with the way I'm treated by ALL of them! I think you're absolutely right; it's not just you, not just your connection. I have had problems myself in the last month or so, with members getting booted out of private/exclusive constantly! It's a miracle if they are able to stay IN video! I've also noticed a major decline in traffic. I can't recall ever hitting the three digit mark of guests in my room, but it used to be damn near close to that. Now, I'm lucky to have more than a handful! My listing on the site (though 5-star) is below hosts with 4 stars (and we offer the same things; hd, audio, no PartyChat). Used to offer PartyChat but I stopped. I believe that to be the very reason members stopped spending money. Streamate have all the stats, so they MUST know what they're doing!
    Anyway, good luck out there.

    Yes, I've seen girls with 4 and 4.5 stars before 5 star girls. And many if not all of the girls on the front page sometimes look like they just woke up and started camming. No shower or anything. And it pisses me off that SM offers live support through text and phone for the beggars, but we get a fuckin automated email system. I know there's way more dumb custies than cam girls to support, so they should be able to tend to us too. I mean, without cam girls, you wouldn't have any customers nor any money to snatch a huge slice from! Yes I'm pissed.

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    It seems the site is so different every time I log on now. I didn't have any problems today. I'll see how the weekend goes.

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    I have been having problems with them lately - fucking up my December goals when I couldn't log on on Wednesday because every time I logged in, I got immediately kicked off with a "cannot authenticate your request" error message.

    I STILL emailed SM (although I have no faith in their customer support, I hope that if enough girls report problems they will admit it is on their end, not ours!) and got the generic "what is your upload speed/are you connected wirelessly/etc" e-mail.

    Its NOT on my end. My end is awesome, amazing, checked, double checked and triple checked!! More to the point, my side of things hasn't changed! There is nothing different on the days that I can log in.

    GRRRRRRRR

    Can we all message them? Maybe if enough people bring it to their attention, it will get fixed!!

    (Side note to Amberose - I would definitely still recommend this as a good site, and as a great site to start off on)
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    Quote Originally Posted by IsobelWren View Post
    You know, you may have a mic that adjusts itself for "optimal volume control" Mine does something wacky to cut down on ambient noise so if you stop talking (as one does in a conversation) it readjusts itself and then it takes a second to catch up so when I start talking again it cuts off the first syllable or two of the first thing I say. Very annoying.

    I got around it by constantly playing music on a low volume. The changes in the music aren't something it can tune out as ambient sound so it keeps itself on all the time. You might want to try experimenting with background noise and stuff like that while you're not actively working just to see what happens.
    i have the logitech 9000 and always use the encoder. i always play background music down low and i never had any problems before until a couple of weeks ago. i honestly don't know what to do.

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    Jinkies! I finally got to work today and made more than $6 bucks. That being said, tonight someone went cam2cam with me and it kept freezing up and kicking him out. He tried THREE times to make it work and then eventually he gave up. (Can you blame him?) And get this, it was his first time visiting Streamate. Yep, I am pretty sure they lost a new customer over that headache. When we started, he said money wasn't an issue and he just wanted my company -- so Streamate just lost a bunch of money for the both of us.

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