What latency you guys are getting in hotstar , Its LIVE is no more live for me

[Prashanth]

Is Hotstar live real-time for you guys?

My friends are getting way faster than me .
what is your latency to this ip?

 

[a.c]

Should not matter, as the video will be sent from akamai IP which will be different. Try refreshing?
Btw ping to that IP is 45ms.
Ping to www.hotstar.com is 25ms.

 

[AshikAliLive]

I get under 6ms to Hotstar.com. Hotstar uses Akamai which has a datacenter in Bangalore, so you should get under 20ms at worst.

root@OpenWrt:~# ping www.hotstar.com
PING www.hotstar.com (117.239.141.120): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 117.239.141.120: seq=0 ttl=60 time=6.146 ms
64 bytes from 117.239.141.120: seq=1 ttl=60 time=5.856 ms
64 bytes from 117.239.141.120: seq=2 ttl=60 time=5.945 ms
64 bytes from 117.239.141.120: seq=3 ttl=60 time=5.941 ms
64 bytes from 117.239.141.120: seq=4 ttl=60 time=5.951 ms
64 bytes from 117.239.141.120: seq=5 ttl=60 time=6.410 ms
64 bytes from 117.239.141.120: seq=6 ttl=60 time=6.298 ms
64 bytes from 117.239.141.120: seq=7 ttl=60 time=5.938 ms
64 bytes from 117.239.141.120: seq=8 ttl=60 time=5.867 ms
^C
--- www.hotstar.com ping statistics ---
9 packets transmitted, 9 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 5.856/6.039/6.410 ms
root@OpenWrt:~#

 

[Prashanth]

I watch IPL with my friends in discord. So they react to that thing and i'll watch that happening in my screen 5-8 secs later ,which is frustrating thing in watching live cricket . You guys getting different routes or am i missing something here? . Is DNS the culprit ? Let me change it.

 

[Prashanth]

Okay it is Google's DNS which made me to connect to that IP for Hotstar . Here is BSNL & Cloud fare's DNS given ip for hotstar.com

After some quick research , google DNS also messed up with IP for reddit.com also .

If I use 1.1.1.1, it takes me to reddit like this

and 61.1.1.1 messes up for this one on pingplotter but somehow website loaded on chrome (maybe IP not ping-able?)

So in conclusion I have to use 1.1.1.1 which itself has 50ms delay

 

[Joyous]

Anyway Hotstar does not provide enough bandwidth bit-rate for live videos.. its around 2-6 Mbps only. Not good enough for HD sports streaming. The ball movement in many TV's are jittery. 12-20 Mbps needed for smooth sports streaming.

 

[mr_grump5]

r/cricket discord server? @Prashanth

 

[shashankb]

Anyway Hotstar does not provide enough bandwidth bit-rate for live videos.. its around 2-6 Mbps only. Not good enough for HD sports streaming. The ball movement in many TV's are jittery. 12-20 Mbps needed for smooth sports streaming.

Yep I seriously thought Amazon should have bought the rights for digital streaming. Their transit is also huge for that much demand
They can leverage the advantage of owning Twitch for a long time

As Hotstar uses AWS for backend , it is going to be pretty costly for them

 

[Prashanth]

@Joyous it's only 5mbps max yep its jittery I watch it on laptop so mine is not that pixelated . If you watch it using >32" TV's you can easily notice the picture compression . It's India bro what can you expect , they want to save money on everything .

 

[Prashanth]

@mr_grump5 no bro my friend in Chennai who also has Hotstar we watch together . my own discord server.