I believe my problems stem from local ISP issues and not from Plex. That said, this is an issue I have had in multiple places across different cities/countries/equipment/lodgings. The upload speed from my server is not an issue.
Does Plex support inverse multiplexing or is that a real possibility down the road? It seems a lot of internet connections I find myself on have pretty decent internet, but only over total bandwidth. For instance where I am right now will speedtest.net at ~120Mbps, except that a single stream will only test at ~4Mbps, and doesn’t seem stable at that. I’ve had this problem at a bunch of different places so it does not seem unique that this one will have far lower caps for any individual stream.
It would be great if Plex could split the stream into many (even 2-3) parts to be recombined locally so I could get some decent quality streams and actually watch anything.
I have no idea how difficult this would be to implement and I’m open any ideas of how to solve this problem. I get that I could pre-transcode my own stuff, and I’m open to sweet automated set-up suggestions for new media, but it’s a big library and I’m looking for more on-demand solutions.
I think you’re looking for what is being requested in this parallel feature suggestion.
Unless you feel it’s different I’ll close your request in order to avoid duplicate requests. As described in the description for the feature suggestion category we try to avoid duplicate suggestions to prevent multiple posts “competing” and distracting votes from each other.
As for the “help” part… is that 120 Mbps upload speed speedtest.net is showing for you? When it comes to remote access, it’s not about your download speed… and from what I’ve seen there is indeed ISPs who give you 120 Mbps with a lousy <10 Mbps of upload. (That doesn’t disqualify your request, though )
Yep, that’s pretty much the same. Thanks for linking it. Guess I was using too specific of jargon while searching through the forum. You can close this one and I’ll vote on that.
But yeah, my server is on a 100/100 line, although I’ll often end up places (AirBnB, Hotel, etc) that have a 100+ total download, but a single connection will only be 3-4 Mbps, and then streaming is a mess.
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