# How accurate is the Plex bandwidth graph?

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Even if you set your _average_ bandwidth to be at 4 mbps, it doesn’t mean that the individual “chunks” of data are transferred to the client at 4mbps.  
Instead they are using whichever bandwidth is available. i.e. there is no “traffic shaping”.

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