Higher quality relay

Feature Suggestions
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Recently switched isp’s to Tmobile and found myself behind a nice cgnat. Knowing there aren’t a lot of good easy to use free options i would like to ask plex to offer a full quality indirect streaming subscriptions not limited to 2Mbps.

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Please quantify what “Full Quality” means in terms of bit rate and what would be an acceptable surcharge for such a premium service

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I would be looking for 5-8Mbps for HD of our Live TV streams without losing too much clarity. I would be willing to pay a couple bucks a month for that. I am limited based on my upstream bandwidth at the moment but if I can increase that I would be interested in more in the future.

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@kellenori42

A “Premium Relay” service would still be limited by your upload no matter what happened.

What is your current upload ? calculate having about 85% of that .

what do you get ?

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25Mbps on average. Occasionally up to 40.

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I am going to put some effort into this because

  • I think there are those cases (CG-NAT and Static IP for $5-10/nonth )is not an option
  • Folks living in a condo/homeowners association where there is a common router they can’t control.

That as basis what I do see,

  1. Plex will need to buy bandwidth from its provider
  2. That bandwidth will be just like us purchasing from our ISP (speed & amount)
  3. A customer subscribes for Rate X, Quota Y package.
  4. The mechanism functions essentially like our home ISPs do for speed & quota except constrained only for Plex streaming use.
  5. In Plex’s case, when the quota / billing period is over, normal Relay limitations resume.

Does this make sense?

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Sounds great…

Take my money. But not too much. :slight_smile:

Thanks for listening, and even more so for considering it.

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I’m by no means an official spokesman nor am I involved with the product development group but I do hear what you’re asking and will write it up.

If you’d like, I’ll post it here so you and all can determine if it’s worthy of submitting as a formal product request.

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There’s already an existing thread/suggestion asking for an option to get higher relay speed/bandwidth. I suggest you comment/vote in that thread in order to avoid distracting votes.

I’ll therefore close this thread as a duplicate.

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2021 clean-up: duplicate