R1CH Profile Blog Joined May 2007 Netherlands 10026 Posts Last Edited: 2014-01-02 23:07:40 #1



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Version 2.0 (2013-11-25):

No longer conflicts with any other proxy extensions such as Mediahint, Hola, etc. Yay!



Install:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/twitchtv-europe-lag-fix/hkoehmlkhjgaboegkondkciclminpjof?hl=en



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Firefox is no longer supported. In my quest to reduce the amount of lag I experience on Twitch streams in Europe, I discovered that the European Twitch servers seem to perform worse than the US servers for me. So I developed a Chrome extension that uses some proxy trickery to try to redirect your connection to a US Twitch server. This has resulted in a massive improvement in my ability to watch Twitch lag-free. Maybe it will for you too! Give it a try!No longer conflicts with any other proxy extensions such as Mediahint, Hola, etc. Yay!



UPDATE: This extension has been discontinued. As a result of Twitch changing their video system to HTTP instead of RTMP, this extension does not help nearly as much and will actually cause problems for some people instead of improving things. Administrator Twitter: @R1CH_TL

RiSkysc2 Profile Joined September 2011 684 Posts Last Edited: 2013-11-03 00:02:01 #2 If enough people use this, surely NA will suffer the same problems EU does?



Also, will this work on my phone?

Flaiker Profile Joined July 2010 Germany 235 Posts #3 Seems to be working great for me. Couldnt watch WCS America before at all. ...

WhizPower Profile Joined June 2013 Netherlands 33 Posts #4



Your Experimental Twitch Proxy stopped working like 2 months ago for me though. Trying it out right nowYour Experimental Twitch Proxy stopped working like 2 months ago for me though.

tomastaz Profile Joined January 2013 United States 973 Posts #5 Thanks man! No church in the wild --- @tzhang0126

FlukyS Profile Blog Joined August 2011 Ireland 481 Posts #6 Thank fuck this came before the WCS finals. Thanks R1CH.

zYwi3c Profile Joined November 2010 Poland 1811 Posts #7 You are truly a wizard R1CH ! I'm getting the derection.

seodoth Profile Joined April 2010 Netherlands 314 Posts Last Edited: 2013-11-03 00:57:35 #8 in the twitchproxy.exe i keep getting a "connect request to" followed by "connect failure, 10060" and "--- disconnected ---"



KeksX Profile Blog Joined November 2010 Germany 3630 Posts #9 Works like a charm so far! GJ!

calippo Profile Joined March 2011 Sweden 855 Posts #10 well done R1CH, a single person doing a better job then twitch. I hope they are happy with the new datacenters they put up in europe that didnt do shit, well spent money when they could have hired you in it for the game not for the .... - PMS Army. [WUFC-SDK. VIM. PMS]

Wiggins8 Profile Joined October 2013 Germany 107 Posts #11 Firefox... ???

Thalandros Profile Blog Joined July 2012 Netherlands 1149 Posts #12 Not sure if this is supposed to be the result and if this is even possible but I can watch in 1080p whereas I usually had to scale it down to ''high'' (mostly 720p i assume). Thanks a bunch, R1CH! || ''I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'' ||

bogderpirat Profile Joined April 2011 Jordan 65 Posts Last Edited: 2013-11-03 01:38:35 #13



and who is running that proxy? are they collecting the subscription tokens of people who have a subscription?



aside from all of that, it doesn't seem to help me in particular; still getting the usual lags. shouldn't it be possible to ship the pac file with the extension and link it internally? a possibly arbitrary proxy configuration script based on some url isn't something i'll trust entirely.and who is running that proxy? are they collecting the subscription tokens of people who have a subscription?aside from all of that, it doesn't seem to help me in particular; still getting the usual lags. if khaldor had boobs, i'd hit him

icydergosu Profile Blog Joined December 2009 526 Posts Last Edited: 2013-11-03 03:01:34 #14



update:

www.twitch.tv

usher.twitch.tv Does anybody know which domain does the actual geochecks?update:usher.twitch.tv I am the Punishment of God. If you had not commited great sins, god would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

EpeenKingPrime Profile Joined February 2012 Netherlands 61 Posts #15 Which ISP do you have Rich? Mine is UPC living in Eindhoven.



I have used the vlc mobile_high fix and that sometimes helps, not always since when VLC starts being more than 20 sec behind real time it starts lagging way more.



Thanks, trying the proxy extension right now.

chrippa Profile Joined September 2007 Sweden 15 Posts Last Edited: 2013-11-03 01:58:57 #16 You may want to add a disclaimer that this should only be used if you trust R1CH. Since this is a proxy all your cookies are sent to his server and could be used to hijack your user session.

bogderpirat Profile Joined April 2011 Jordan 65 Posts #17 mobile streams were great until everyone started using them D: if khaldor had boobs, i'd hit him

Suede Profile Blog Joined September 2013 Sweden 9 Posts #18 For some reason the stream is lagging more on high than before, although Source is almost lagfree.



Thanks for the great add-on, will definitively be used!

Noocta Profile Joined June 2010 France 12095 Posts #19 How telling it is about Twitch EU infrastructure that I get better viewer experience by using servers that are thousands of kilometers away from my place than the one next door... " I'm not gonna fight you. I'm gonna kick your ass ! "

Liquid`Ret Profile Blog Joined October 2002 Netherlands 4486 Posts Last Edited: 2013-11-03 02:27:19 #20 This fix made all twitch streams watchable again for me, whereas before I could not watch anything without lag, even on some of the lowest settings...



so awesome, r1ch!!! <3 Team Liquid

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