Good question - I’ve been using Plex for several years but never had the need to learn much about transcoding so I probably need to do more research.
My main Roku in the living room is wired to a gigabit router and I believe it’s primarily direct streamed. I just checked the dashboard from when this occurred yesterday - image shown below.
It looks like with him connected it was reducing my overall bandwidth. I disabled his account and it gave me back my bandwidth.
I was just searching for video card options and ran across this thread and searched for a comparison of my current 8800-GTS to a GTX 1600 someone recommended in that thread and found this. The GTX-1660 has a +1,711% increase in real-world speed over mine. Wow. Might be time for a new video card at a minimum.
