Highlight the test - click ‘quote’ - as many times as you like.
You don’t. At least not with the full posting. “full quotes” are removed by the forum system.
But you can select the relevant parts of the previous posting with your mouse. You get a “Quote” button then.
I wonder how big those remote streams are and I wonder how we’d see… oh I know… the dashboard would show us some info…lol[quote=“OttoKerner, post:24, topic:541230, full:true”]
You don’t. At least not with the full posting. “full quotes” are removed by the forum system.
But you can select the relevant parts of the previous posting with your mouse. You get a “Quote” button then.
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I see said the blind man to the deaf squirrel while running into a tree.
Not sure how that happened, but… not important right now…
You need to practise a bit. So you don’t mangle the Markdown syntax.
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Forms are kinda like gaming in that regard - apart from the fact that we’re all Campers on the forum and nobody really minds…lol
Yea that last one didn’t work right. Apparently it mess’s it up if you highlight the username and then try it.
Make sure that the cursor is on a new, blank line in the message editor. Otherwise the quotation is getting inserted somewhere inbetween.
Gaming and this Forum are also alike in that it gets harder as you get older - and the hands shake… but on the Forum you can’t break out the shotgun and nade package to make up for any ‘lost steps’.
It’s sad how much i often wanted to though.
The only solution I found was to visit them far less. 
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Gaming and Plex are examples of two different types of traffic. A default QOS will prioritize the gaming traffic (time sensitive Packet Per Second) causing the Plex traffic (hard on router buffer space) to be delayed or dropped.
What is the model number of the Router?
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Well, the Shotty won’t help with this anyway… just make matters worse.
The other day I upgraded from 120/15 to 1000/50 (for $12 - only to get the 50) and the tech left ‘The Gateway’ on in the shiny, new Combo Hell Hole required (I’ve already ordered a suitable ‘Modem’, when it gets here they can have this thing back).
He disabled the WiFi and Router as I requested, but, of course, Plex was dead in the water remotely. A call to the ISP resolved that instantly, but there could be something in the ISP equipment they could adjust I suppose - if they were so inclined.
Just like that one I’ll guess…
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It’s a Hitron combo Router from Spectrum. I’m not sure the model number right now because i’m at work.
I’m not seeing a location in the router to change Qos settings though.
I’m not surprised. ISP-provided routers tend to hide access to these highly technical features from their customers.
Makes support cheaper because:
- support personnel doesn’t have to explain what it does to customers
- customers cannot mess it up and then complain to the ISP about it
- the ISP knowns best what’s good for its customers :sarcmark:
in this, rare instance, they may be right.
Worse, is the fact that they’ll have to be involved in any ‘testing’ and that can only occur during stream/game time - and arranging all this will be like herding cats.
We may have a ‘leave well enough alone’ thing. If gaming ranks higher on the list than friend streaming - and if friend streaming can proceed at a lower bit rate - we’re already doing things correctly. IMO.
I’m now wondering if ‘Automatic Quality’ would do anything positive in this situation? <—like kick in during game time when it sees the stream blowing up.
Automatic quality will force playback to start transcoded. Because only then it can adapt the bitrate on-the-fly. There is currently no way to switch seamlessly from Direct Play to transcoding.
If I read that right, if Gaming is underway Plex may decide to transcode and in that case AQ may help. If the stream is underway when gaming begins - not so much. Manual intervention will need to be employed at the remote end when the stream buffers.
I have found that QoS is highly unreliable in most consumer grate routers and I have never found that it benefits anything I have tried to use it with. On any Router I have ever had. I just turn it off virtually as soon as I set up my routers. I have had several various problems that I tracked down to having QoS turned on but I have never had any problem that I tracked down to having it turned off.
The goal is to not transcode down. It already does that when I’m gaming. Nobody wants to watch in 720p or 420p. Also they said they still had issues at the 2mb 720.
I don’t understand how my gaming could take up that much bandwidth. When I watched the bandwidth in plex it would only go up to 3-4mb upload while I was gaming and right when I closed it it went up to 20mb
