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    Has anyone else had connection problems on SM tonight or last night? Evertime I had a private, I got the "connection has been lost" after just a few minutes. I'm just wondering if this is hapening to anyone else. My internet is good and I'm using an i7 so I'm completely confused. I don't know if it's SM or maybe my internet company (COX)

    Edit: Someone mentioned how SM's site crashed the other day and now that I think of it, I don't think I had problems (except on occasion) before the site crashed ... hmm.
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    Yes, SM is definitely having issues.
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    Yes, i saw in encoding log tab how i'll loose bit rate from 800 to 400 plus i had no privates except a guy who came in and left after 1 min or so. Something was obviously wrong on SM last nite.

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    Default Re: SM Connection Problems

    same here.. there were problems..

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    It was sooooooooooooo bad this morning!!! I literally got kicked off like 5 times. That never happens.

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    Yes i have that same problem. SM will tell you its your wireless internet, internet connection or webrowser, but i just can not see any of these being a problem/ For one i am all updated and have the fastest internet also (cox) and if i connect my wireless or not i still lose connection randomly!. It sucks man ill be in the middle of a show and ill look at my screen and it will just say "start my show" as if i magically logged off. Its lame if anyone knows how to fix it please let us know

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    Thanks for the replies.

    I hope SM gets this figured out because this is extremely frustrating ... my webcam kept freezing randomly during private shows and it has never done that before yesterday. I worried it was my webcam, and I use the C910 ... I uninstalled and re-installed both the encoder and my webcam. It didn't help.
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    I kept having like 10 guys all file into the room at once and then all of them would leave at the exact same time,or like one sec behind each other.then silence.........then BAM!15 guys logging in at same time again...was like that for hrs.you could tell it wasnt just guys jumping in and out,it was def unusual.And i was lagging and my cam looked blurry-even though im not using the encoder,it was def way worse than it normally looks.my camera settings were the same as always,i cleaned the lens off like 20 xs and I have great upload speed,which led me to believe it was on their end...maybe all the probs is bc the site just crashed the other day??

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    I really just don't get how so many girls have issues, and then so many others have zero?

    Maybe it has to do with the sever we are connected to from our computer to theirs? That might not make sense to anyone lol but I can't explain it very well. Basically we are not all connected to Streamate via the same server, they have multiple servers. Maybe the ones having disconnection issues are all on one particular server that is having issues.

    In almost 2 years on SM I've been disconnected less than 5 times total. I was on yesterday and was not connected at all, everything seemed normal?
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    Thank you, Sarah. That makes sense to me ... it could be just certain servers on SM. I know there has been times when a lot of girls had issues and I was thinking "wtf are they talking about. Everything is fine here." There was also a time when I was losing the HD icon, and it just magically reappeared a few days later. Other than that, I've never had issues.

    I just streamed and checked my CPU and it looked fine. It was around 40 and under. I just can't imagine it's something on my end because everything looks fine to me ... to the ladies who were having trouble: Please update us if it's better tonight.

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    I Just got kicked out of a private...second time today.... So its not looking up for those of us who have been having connection problems lately...
    I know it's not my internet....It must be something to do with SM. Its happened to me about 10 times in the past few days and I was in a private everytime...*sigh*

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    Yes! Ive been kicked out four times today while i was in a private.I thought it was my Ethernet cord because it kept saying connection has been loss.So happy to know its not just me.I'm just grateful it hasnt done that during a gold show! That would mean free show for everyone.Actually come to think of it, some of the privates lasted more than 30 seconds and i wasn't paid for it after being disconnected .SMDH. Please get it together Streamate because you messing with my money

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    When i was on another site for many years there was a theory regarding good and bad servers: models with high earning potential will be placed automatically on a "gold server" at log in so they got all the traffic, the modest ones will be placed on less lucrative servers so they did not get too much traffic. I know for sure this theory is real cause one of my friends was a very successful model on that site and when she was working many many hrs and banked she'll get lots of traffic and very good spenders, when she took a long break of a few months and did not put in that crazy hrs like before her traffic slowed down alot and same for her members, she got cheap ones spending little. At the end she gave up camming.
    Also, when sites are having tech issues or work on updates/ maintenance they'll move all their best models on working servers and the rest will be set on damaged ones where no traffic and tech. issues.

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    ^ Hm, really? Weird. I just started camming again in August, but I've been regularly earning $50 per hour. I know there are girls who earn a lot more than that but there are definitely girls earning less ... I've only been putting in about 3 hours a night, 4 or 5 days a week, though, so IDK.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bigbootyjudy1 View Post
    Yes! Ive been kicked out four times today while i was in a private.I thought it was my Ethernet cord because it kept saying connection has been loss.So happy to know its not just me.I'm just grateful it hasnt done that during a gold show! That would mean free show for everyone.Actually come to think of it, some of the privates lasted more than 30 seconds and i wasn't paid for it after being disconnected .SMDH. Please get it together Streamate because you messing with my money
    I am too scared to do gold shows now with it messing up on me but Im happy none of your gold shows have been affected
    Quote Originally Posted by Benefit View Post
    ^ Hm, really? Weird. I just started camming again in August, but I've been regularly earning $50 per hour. I know there are girls who earn a lot more than that but there are definitely girls earning less ... I've only been putting in about 3 hours a night, 4 or 5 days a week, though, so IDK.
    Same here....I work a decent amount of hour and average $60+ an hour....which may not be a lot (in the grand scheme of the camming world) but thats still about $120 SM is getting every hour Im on....

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    YES!!

    The past 2 nights (including tonight) I have been kicked off, and SM pages either refuse to load, load half-way, or take an AGE to load! Sometimes I'll be sitting in chat, think my night is just going so slow because no one is tipping / taking me private, then when I load my cammodels page, it shows me as offline!




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    ^ Yup, same here. It either shows me as offline or my page just loads and loads but never shows my cam. I haven't been on tonight and I'm not sure if I will.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SarahTime View Post
    I really just don't get how so many girls have issues, and then so many others have zero?

    Maybe it has to do with the sever we are connected to from our computer to theirs? That might not make sense to anyone lol but I can't explain it very well. Basically we are not all connected to Streamate via the same server, they have multiple servers. Maybe the ones having disconnection issues are all on one particular server that is having issues.

    In almost 2 years on SM I've been disconnected less than 5 times total. I was on yesterday and was not connected at all, everything seemed normal?
    Doubt girls from the USA, the UK and EE are streaming via the same server - so it's either several servers acting up at a time, or the site using some undercooked software (I know they've been introducing the break button feature - I don't have any but just issues). I know I could blame my slow computer, bad connection, browser etc, but it has NEVER been that bad, even when I was using a Centrino with 2GB RAM and a twice slower internet connection.

    BTW, I saw a weird thing: girls on page 1 tagged OFFLINE 0_o. Wondering if it has something to do with the issues the site seems to be having (software update etc)?
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    I've been watching this thread a lot ... waiting for updates. Has anyone who had problems last night still having problems tonight?

    I swear, I've been checking this thread every 20 minutes today. *sigh*

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    Quote Originally Posted by AliceFun View Post
    When i was on another site for many years there was a theory regarding good and bad servers: models with high earning potential will be placed automatically on a "gold server" at log in so they got all the traffic, the modest ones will be placed on less lucrative servers so they did not get too much traffic. I know for sure this theory is real cause one of my friends was a very successful model on that site and when she was working many many hrs and banked she'll get lots of traffic and very good spenders, when she took a long break of a few months and did not put in that crazy hrs like before her traffic slowed down alot and same for her members, she got cheap ones spending little. At the end she gave up camming.
    Also, when sites are having tech issues or work on updates/ maintenance they'll move all their best models on working servers and the rest will be set on damaged ones where no traffic and tech. issues.
    That isn't proof that the theory is right by any means.

    The same outcome could result via any number of reasons unconnected to your theory of "high earners being placed on a better server", including the overall work ethic of how naturally, the harder you work, the more you will earn. Take time off and naturally, your fanbase will forget about you.




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    This is horrid. I have been online for 2 hours with no traffic. I made 1500 dollars 3 weeks ago to this??? i took 9 days off and come back to this crap! I hope for all of us SM gets their softwear updates under control. We are all loosing money.

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    Delightful... last night I was showing up as online on some of my regulars favorites lists and not showing up on others. Bless their darling hearts for paying attention to my schedule and using the search function. One of them even said that I'd been somehow removed from his favorites list and he had to add me on to it again. ARGH! I feel like this stupid glitch has set me back by god knows how many hours of work.
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    I had the same problem. I just thought it was my internet though cause my internet kept disconnecting? But maybe it was from Streammates crash
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    I haven't been on cam for a few days, but over the weekend, my bf was here and he wanted me to show him my favorite models and possibly watch a Gold Show. We got on Friday night and didn't see many Gold Shows happening. ManyRoses - if you see this, I stopped by to say Hi! and show you to my bf but you immediately were taken private. :-) We continued to look on Sat & Sun at different times and I noticed that there weren't nearly as many Gold Shows going on. We tried to join in for two different shows last night but both times there was a system error message that popped up during the countdown and the model had to cancel the show and start over, so we just went to do our own thing.

    I hope all their issues are worked out because I will be logging some serious hours this week to make up for my days off! Any updates?

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    ^ It's so interesting that you say that, because I had one guy say there was an "error" when he was trying to take me private, and despite having 12-20 people in my room at all times, it was taking guys longer to go private. A second guy asked me why I don't take exclusives. I told him I do, and he said the exclusive option wasn't showing up ... then all of a sudden he was able to click it. Weird.

    I hope they figure this shit out.

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