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Basically, my house area has no fibre roll out plans. My current speed is 16up/0.8down mbps.
I want to stream to twitch from home, as I can from uni (at 3000mbps bitrate).

Is there anyway to get my upload to 2mb or something? Like via having 2 lines, for 1 house, and somehow merging them to have ~1.6mb upload? Am I doomed to never stream from my house for the next 5 years?
 
It might be worth exploring Mobile Broadband first, especially EE's 4G service, as if this is available then that would do it but obviously the data allowances are very merger for such purposes.

You might be able to do it by bonding two phone lines together but this is hugely expensive as you have to pay for two broadband packages and two line rental fees. Many ISPs will offer "line bonding" solutions but they won't always publicise it. It might be worth asking Zen Internet or AAISP directly about your options for this. Sharedband.com also do something similar.
 
I didn't know what "Twitch" was before this post. I thought it might have to do with bird-watching ;)

I liked the idea of streaming a camera feed of our bird table/feeders as we get some unusual species, but with ADSL it's not really possible here. Or, it is, just, with about 0.5Mbps upstream but the quality wouldn't be great. And, it relies on pretty well 100% of that bandwidth being available all of the time.

I could do it with our EE 4G connection (16 to 20Meg up) but at £30 per 10GB I rule it out as an option.

The difference between your connection and ADSL as it is here, is that with 16Meg down (assume you mixed those up in your post) you might be able to make use of something called Annex-M (if I recall that rightly) to sacrifice some downstream speed in favour of upstream speed just nudging it maybe to 1Mbps+ making it feasible. BE used to do this although they've been taken over by Sky, as MarkJ says, Zen or AAISP might be worth checking out. Though again the cost of data usage might come into it.

Though one other thing occurs, not a networking expert, but if you want low latency for e.g. gaming, and you have a continuous stream uploading on the same connection - it's been a long time since I read that TCP-IP book - I *think* this might increase the latency a fraction. If that is true, then you might be better off with a separate line with Annex-M on it to do the streaming. Though that last bit might be nonsense, perhaps someone else can confirm.
 
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