EU : no more lags on twitch

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.

Used in conjunction with my "Experimental Twitch Proxy", 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!

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

Some downsides: non-partnered streams seem to be region-locked, so the US server won't allow you to connect. This will result in a 5-10 second delay when loading - the extension will detect that the server didn't let you connect, and send a redirect request so that you connect as normal. It is incompatible with any other PAC extensions (usually country bypass extensions). Also, this may not help at all for you, it's very likely ISP dependent.

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Firefox users can also use the proxy, but it needs to be configured manually through the Firefox network settings. Set your automatic proxy URL to http://r-1.ch/twitch.pac as shown:

function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
	if (dnsDomainIs(host, ".usher.justin.tv.r-1.ch"))
	{
		return "DIRECT";
	}

	if (isInNet(host, "199.9.251.154", "255.255.255.248"))
	{
		return "PROXY 173.236.101.38:9191";
	}

	return "DIRECT";
}

Jump back to quoted post6 Nov 2013, 11:40 AMwuff

Why would connecting to an American server to watch a stream hosted in the EU be any better?

Jump back to quoted post6 Nov 2013, 11:51 AMtuvok

As they said, EU servers seem to have less available bandwidth, thus lagging more frequently.
US servers have more bandwidth and since latency time is not really important in this context they might perform better.
If you don't have any problem don't change anything
Wonder if this will work for watching SNF?

Jump back to quoted post11 Nov 2013, 11:32 AMSgtBulldog

Só I need to use Chromne to make it work or what?