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    Duh SM is f**cking with my money. >.<

    Damn, I'm about to flip. This is really frustrating. SM is already causing me grief without these problems--I've seen my earnings drop severely from last week, it's been really slow.

    But now, when I'm in free chat, the stream disconnects constantly...this is especially noticeable when I'm about to seal the deal for a private. And just now, I was in private, and the guy logged off because he said my screen froze. We tried to do it again, but right before he was about to go private, my stream disconnected again. A box usually pops up telling me what happened, and giving me options to retry or cancel. Has this been happening to anyone?

    This sucks The only thing that keeps me positive is the fact that I've signed up for another site, and plan on trying it out for the first time tomorrow night.

    Damn it all though...


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    Default Re: SM is f**cking with my money. >.<

    Don't panic, it's not YOU, it's your computer!! Start looking for updates. Your graphics card, your motherboard, your..whatever. It seems everything has new updates in the last couple of weeks. Even Java.

    I did all of my updates and (like you was having problems last week) and have had no problems since.

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    Default Re: SM is f**cking with my money. >.<

    Well its certainly not my computer. I just did all of my updates today, plus had a new logic board put in 3 days ago. My internet is fine as well (50 mbps down and 2 mbps up).

    Non stop lag for me. Fuckn' non stop. BTW I have invested literally thousands in my technology and cameras so I know for sure its not that. Infact I just bought one of these and unboxed it http://www.vistek.ca/store/259835/bl...y-extreme.aspx as a replacement for my Elgato (which uses slow USB 2.0). The SM encoder kept dropping me.

    Shit I am just about to give up on doing free chat all together.



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    Default Re: SM is f**cking with my money. >.<

    Quote Originally Posted by OJenni! View Post

    Shit I am just about to give up on doing free chat all together.
    You are saying this as if there's an alternate option lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by cvarga View Post
    You are saying this as if there's an alternate option lol
    Yes there is. Plenty of webcam models do not do free chat or go on sites where free chat is mandatory. Making $100+/day is possible without free chat sites.



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    Default Re: SM is f**cking with my money. >.<

    This is like the 3rd thread this week with girls having this issue =( Dont worry girly had to quite them all together, for now at least which makes me a sad panda. It was my fav site with all my custies but my lag is like 20 seconds. Pretty bad. Hope you can get it to work. Make sure you triple check the encoder and everything else. I called adobe yesterday but the wait was too long. I'm calling them again at 8am tomorrow. Will report back to everyone!

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    Default Re: SM is f**cking with my money. >.<

    Quote Originally Posted by OJenni! View Post
    Making $100+/day is possible without free chat sites.
    I wish 100/day was enough for me...
    I wish I could win the lottery...
    damn it............

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fridays View Post
    I wish 100/day was enough for me...
    I wish I could win the lottery...
    damn it............
    Luckily I am in a good tax situation as I am one of those people that does not owe them, but they don't owe me either.

    My car is paid off and has no lean on it and I fully plan on running that thing in to the ground. Its 8 yrs old and has around 182,000 kms on it (that's around 110,000 miles I think).

    My rent is inclusive, the only bills I pay are internet/cable/cell phone, food and of course car insurance. I don't own a credit card.

    $60/day gets me by. $100/day makes me smile. $100+/day is great for me

    Now I don't get me wrong, I will miss the SM income. A lot. But I have other ways of hitting my goals.



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    Default Re: SM is f**cking with my money. >.<

    Sorry to hear there have been problems. That would frustrate the hell out of me because it's becoming my main source of income lately.

    I'm wondering if there is a connection issue for some of you because I haven't seen these issues this week. A couple weeks ago there were some issues for me but they resolved within a few hours.


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    Default Re: SM is f**cking with my money. >.<

    There are many things that can be the issue. Slow internet, slow computer, updates needed, old USB cable, camera issues, the site itself has issues and so much more. Don't let it get you down. Try another site for a couple of days hopefully by then your issues will be resolved. SM has it's moments of instability because there's sooo many girls on and the HD encoder can cause issues too.
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    Default Re: SM is f**cking with my money. >.<

    It disconnected me and gave me that error message when I was in the middle of an exclusive yesterday. It hasn't happened again since. But I think it's a problem on their end because my computer and internet are fine, and everything's up to date.

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    I didn't read through all the replies here but last night I had to log out of Streamate it was so bad, and another model that was on at the same time said she was having the same problem, and a customer said that every girl he visited it was the same deal. It's most certainly the site.

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    Default Re: SM is f**cking with my money. >.<

    I was on for 4.5 hrs yesterday and 3.5 hours tonight with zero issues at all.... It's strange how some people get errors while others don't. Makes it hard to pin point the problem. You would think if it was the site then all girls would have the same problem...?
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    Quote Originally Posted by OJenni! View Post
    Luckily I am in a good tax situation as I am one of those people that does not owe them, but they don't owe me either.

    My car is paid off and has no lean on it and I fully plan on running that thing in to the ground. Its 8 yrs old and has around 182,000 kms on it (that's around 110,000 miles I think).

    My rent is inclusive, the only bills I pay are internet/cable/cell phone, food and of course car insurance. I don't own a credit card.

    $60/day gets me by. $100/day makes me smile. $100+/day is great for me

    Now I don't get me wrong, I will miss the SM income. A lot. But I have other ways of hitting my goals.
    I'm jealous of your financial situation! Haha

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    Default Re: SM is f**cking with my money. >.<

    Oh look. It's THIS thread again... Sorry this has happened to you. You are not alone. I have issues with SM as well. Try not using the encoder.

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    Default Re: SM is f**cking with my money. >.<

    How many people are experiencing problems like this have their bit rate or frame rate to anything higher than what the tutorial said to?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Juliette25 View Post
    I'm jealous of your financial situation! Haha
    Well its not perfect, ideally I would like to be in a more "upscale" apartment and have a new car.

    A new car would be great. But then again being the cheap Asian I am, I have a hard time justifying getting rid of my current one. "Run that shit in to the ground" I keep telling myself!


    Back to the encoder situation. Yes I have all my settings to the ones that SM specifies, I even lowered my frame rate to the standard 12 fps and bitrate to 650. I have a blackmagic box so I tried playing around with the settings on that. I also tried going back to my elgato which was working fine before and still suffered the constant dropping and lagging. GRRR....



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