re: Xbox One Windows 10 streaming *Update*

In theory it would, if that's the problem. The HP Stream's eMMC is not exactly SSD-level performance for sure, but it would certainly outperform an old 5400-rpm mobile HDD, emphasis on the old. But I have absolutely no idea if that's the problem, just throwing out possibilities that can be checked. I'd put it low on the list of possibilities.

Task Manager/Resource Monitor in Windows should tell you a lot already in the performance tab.

CPU usage... if it's hitting 90-100% utilization, that may be a problem. It'll show you disk transfer rate. If it's in the 10s of megabytes/s while streaming (50-100mb maybe), possible bottleneck there.

Ethernet send/receive... would be good to compare it to the HP Stream to see if the HP Stream has higher throughput or more consistent connection. Or, put them on the network, share a file or folder on either PC (something large, 1GB+ worth of files preferable), and copy it over the network back and forth to the PCs, watching send and receive on both.

You could have random programs and shite running on the Core 2 Duo hogging resources -- bandwidth, RAM, CPU, i/o, etc.

Another thought. Old PC upgraded to Windows 10 -- yes, it has the specs to support it. But that doesn't mean your old drivers are necessarily playing nice either. Anything from your Wifi and ethernet drivers to your chipset drivers could be causing a problem. Unless the manufacturer released Windows 10 compatible drivers and you installed them, it's actually highly likely there's an issue there. I'm not upgrading my 5-year-old ASUS laptop for that very reason. It's on Win 7. No more driver support from ASUS for it, and there were workarounds posted for people who were having driver issues when upgrading to Windows 8, so I didn't even bother with that either.

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I tested both on throughput. Both have average of 6.5 Mbps and peak at 6.7 Mbps.

Hp stream is running at 1333 Mhz speed on RAM. It's a DDR3.

Asus is running at 800 MHz speed on RAM. It's a DDR2.

HP stream seemed to have a higher average write speed on the disk drive at around 45 KB/s peak around 105 KB/s

Asus average lower and less often at around 25 KB/s and peak at 300 KB/s

Medium. Throughput is also very consistent throughout both. Stays at a constant 6.5 Mbps.

You figure out the reason for the high disk usage disparity?

A rather time-consuming experiment might be a fresh install of windows on a different partition. Just install Windows, essential drivers, and whatever else you need to stream. Eliminate any potential variables that arise from background processes accumulating over a period of time.

Failing that, I'm stumped at the moment. I'm sure you only live a few minutes from me. I could stop by sometime this week and take a look.

EDIT: Definitely try the fixes in those links above first.

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Medium.

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the higher the setting the better the stream will be with input lag

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Stays at a constant 6.5 Mbps.

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will shoot up with a higher stream setting

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but it would still lag but have significantly less spikes in lag

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it's tough for a video feed to stay consistent over wifi when the video is constantly updated in real time instead of buffering/downloading in the background. try direct connecting your computer. It will probably be a lot better.

If you don't have an Ethernet port, you will need a USB/Ethernet adapter.

If you're talking about the threads shown in task manager, that's not how many threads are being handled, those are just threads from running processes, handled by your task scheduler. The number of them has nothing to do with how many the CPU can execute at once, and everything to do with how many threads are required for a running process. Threads can be bound (and potentially bottlenecked) by CPU, memory, hard drive, or network bandwidth.

I'm assuming the new computer solved everything? What are the specs?