# Reduce live stream delay

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/reduce-live-stream-delay/38298>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [March 17, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/reduce-live-stream-delay/38298 "2012-03-17T19:19:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Iulian\_Ionescu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@Iulian\_Ionescu](https://community.wowza.com/u/Iulian_Ionescu)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/reduce-live-stream-delay/38298/1 "2012-03-17T19:19:31Z")

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Hello,

I am using the origin-edge Wowza Media Server setup in order to stream live content (MPEG2TS SPTS over IP) to jwPlayers.

After an arbitrary period of time I had the edge servers slipping delayed with up to 13 minutes. Right now I am having in the Application.xml at Streams/StreamType ‘liverepeater-edge’. I read through the hints from the page at [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-low-latency-applications-in-wowza-streaming-engine-for-rtmp-streaming](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-low-latency-applications-in-wowza-streaming-engine-for-rtmp-streaming) and I saw what was recommended.

I have few questions:

1. What do I have to do besides what is recommended in the above URL in order to have a delay of maximum 30 seconds between live and internet content?

2. In the current setup, one of the origin servers was used also as an edge server. This setup, on a higher connection count from user, could cause streaming problems, such as image freezings, on all the edges using that origin?

Thank you for the answer.

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 10:43pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/reduce-live-stream-delay/38298/2 "2012-03-18T22:43:00Z")

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I don’t have anything to add to that guide.

As load increases, eventually you will hit the limits of your server or network. If you use the origin as a edge too, that increases the load.

Richard