# fascinating arithmetic

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/fascinating-arithmetic/210876>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [October 20, 2017, 6:33am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/fascinating-arithmetic/210876 "2017-10-20T06:33:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![w73pa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/w73pa/32/183563_2.png) [@w73pa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/w73pa)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2017, 6:33am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/fascinating-arithmetic/210876/1 "2017-10-20T06:33:30Z")

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I don’t know what I accidentally clicked on my [https://app.plex.tv/desktop#](https://app.plex.tv/desktop#) dashboard, but I am glad that I didn’t miss the diagnostic displayed thereafter:

_Not enough bandwidth for direct play of this item. Required bandwidth is 43312kbps and only 8000kbps is available._

🙂

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**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2017, 1:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/fascinating-arithmetic/210876/2 "2017-10-20T13:25:59Z")

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That’s pretty normal.  
The 8mbps could have been set in the server preferences as an upper limit.  
Or it could have been set directly in the client.

What exactly is your question?

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 12:01am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/fascinating-arithmetic/210876/3 "2020-01-08T00:01:22Z")

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