Keep in mind, the more light activity and movement being captured (sports game vs. You can run a live stream with less processing power than what’s noted below but anticipate the quality of your live stream to be lower in order to work properly. When it finishes you need to click on the “ Show more info ” at the bottom to test your Upload Speed, measured in Mbps (1Mbps = 1000Kbps).īelow are hardware specs that we recommend if live streaming a true HD (1920×1080) live stream. Run a speed test at and bookmark this in your browser!! This site starts testing your download speed automatically upon landing on its page.

Multiple encoders (only works with multiple ISP’s).Redundant Connections (automatic fallback to LTE) – talk to your ISP.

Multiple ISP (as a fallback but it is expensive) – talk to your ISP.

Don’t confuse variable bandwidth with the encoder settings variable & constant, they are two different things. Try to stay away from variable bandwidth because it does not provide consistency.

Fixed bandwidth - talk to your ISP if this is an available option.

The minimum upload bandwidth for a true HD 1080p stream is 7 Mbps because the bitrate for that quality of stream uses 3.5 Mbps.

The minimum upload bandwidth for an HD 720p stream is 5 Mbps because the bitrate for that quality of stream uses 2.5 Mbps.

See our Recommended Encoder Settings guide for more information. Only use up to half of your maximum upload bandwidth for all streams combined.

Your upload bandwidth should be at least double what you’re streaming.

We like to try and stay away from using a shared network as that will take away from the upload bandwidth needed for the stream. Speak with your Internet Service Provider (ISP) to see what is available in your area We also provide RTMP encoder suggestions and other system requirement recommendations that have been verified by our team of experts with the Vidflex™ platform. This document is intended to help you with the standard recommendations to ensure your network is up & ready for live streaming. The following topics will be mentioned in this document :

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