+1 I would love to have this feature!
+1 I would love to have this feature!
@TheIceMaster said:
+1 I would love to have this feature!
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Please add this feature! This would definitely ease Internet/bandwidth constraints.
How has this not happened yet. Weāve been asking for three years, and pay for plexpass. I know you guys (staff) work really hard, but it just feels like sometimes you donāt pay attention.
Thatās the spirit of this entire forum and itās threads, figuring out how to utilize Plex to itās full potential.
+1, per user caps on quality or bandwidth i.e. 2MBps/720p or at least global level settings for all users would be a godsend!
It seems like if it was simple we would probably already have this feature because it surprises me that we donāt have it already. I would simply settle for global remote limitations. Itās not that I donāt think people are trust worthy but more that it is not easy to teach everyone how to do this. Most of them have no idea what quality they are streaming in to begin with. I could show them too but I would rather just do it once from the server end and be done 
I have no bandwidth constraints
Would love WanPerStreamMinUploadRate or WanPerStreamDenyTranscode
@nerrb said:
How has this not happened yet. Weāve been asking for three years, and pay for plexpass. I know you guys (staff) work really hard, but it just feels like sometimes you donāt pay attention.Thatās the spirit of this entire forum and itās threads, figuring out how to utilize Plex to itās full potential.
With Plex not even running as a local service in Windows yet, Iām not surprised that this isnāt implemented. It seems like the obvious stuff is overlooked and unnecessary things for photos and music continue to be put as a priority. Itās frustrating.
+1, would like to set a āall users must use quality setting or lessā option
@sundi712 said:
@nerrb said:
How has this not happened yet. Weāve been asking for three years, and pay for plexpass. I know you guys (staff) work really hard, but it just feels like sometimes you donāt pay attention.Thatās the spirit of this entire forum and itās threads, figuring out how to utilize Plex to itās full potential.
With Plex not even running as a local service in Windows yet, Iām not surprised that this isnāt implemented. It seems like the obvious stuff is overlooked and unnecessary things for photos and music continue to be put as a priority. Itās frustrating.
Yep. Three years in and only now it seems like a solution may be in the pipeline.
This feature and a decent option for movie collections are the only two things missing for me at leastā¦ well and PMP becoming usable.
I actually just installed Emby Server and Emby Theatre the other day purely for my local viewing. However I did ask my girlfriend to test in on her Roku to make sure remote access was working. I was pretty surprised the day after when she was still using it. She loves it and asked if she could use it instead of Plex. Plus I have a working option for movie collections. But most of all It simply lets you set a client bandwidth limit from the server and it works extremely well. They seem to add the important stuff first over at Emby. They are certainly more open to discussing the direction they want to take things plus its open source.
Bye Bye Plex after three or four years. Its been a brilliant and frustrating three or four yearsā¦ In roughly equal measure.
I too would appreciate a feature to throttle the remote streams. If I set my remote bandwidth to 5Mbps.
1 stream could leverage all 5Mbps.
If another stream starts, then both are reduced to 2.5Mbps.
If the 3rd stream starts, then 1.333Mbps each.
Also being able to set it to not allow new streams, if doing so, would reduce all streams to a certain value. In this example, I will use 1.3Mbs.
Stream 4 would be denied, as it would reduce all streams to 1.25Mbps.
+1 would want to set a limit on plex overall upload which would dynamically adjust depending on amount of users. So if 5 users and 15mbps to share, each gets 3mbps.
Also would want to limit amount of logins per user account.
This feature has been requested for 3 years now and still has not been implemented?
Please put me down as a +1 for a per user bandwidth setting.
@MikeRotch did you make sure you clicked the like button on the first post? Thatās how you register your +1
This might be easier to do if the limitations were placed on specific users allowed access to the server as opposed to the remote access as a whole.
This way you could keep full speed for your own accounts when using remotely but reduced to a hard set limit for friends who share.
But the truth is the issue is more about the transcoding capability of the server than the bandwidth each stream uses.
Sure you could limit 4 users to 1 Mb each but if all 4 are streaming from your server your CPU is going to working at such a frenzy that not even a direct play stream locally will display without stuttering.
SO it has to be more than just data limits and also include max concurrent streams allowed.
@AsphyxNYC I agree! There is already existing options to limit your remote quality settings why not use this existing feature and just allow the server admin to specify a max quality?
PLEASE IMPLEMENT THIS!!!
@lambro690 said:
@AsphyxNYC I agree! There is already existing options to limit your remote quality settings why not use this existing feature and just allow the server admin to specify a max quality?
Well most have to do that already because their upload bitrate isnāt capable of full streams.
I think this is going to require doing it as part of the Plex Web account as opposed to the server itself.
What is shared and who it is shared with I think is all done on the Plex Account side not the personal Plex Server side. You send invites via email from your server but they are required to register a Plex Account. So the settings for share quality would probably be best done there leaving the Full Quality available for your personal remote streaming. (Which should take precedent over any Shared remote requests by saying unavailable or reduced quality only.)
Then you could set up bandwith restrictions per user and total concurrent streams for all shared users and how many when a Main User is using the remote function.
i.e. 2 Concurrent @ 1Mb when Main user is not using remote and 0 or 1 @ 400K concurrent when Main Account is remotely streaming. But the number of streams is important because each reduced quality stream is going to require Transcoding which is gonna be a killer even for someone streaming that is not remote at the time.
And another feature that would be good is to be able to shut off sharing from the server when you want to use the server local without issue.
Sort of a Sharing Door lock that when you check it the shared users get a message saying the server is not available for shared accounts at this time.
At my location, it is much easier for me to afford or save for CPU/equipment that could do heavier transcoding than it is to afford recurring higher upstream bandwidth charges.
Iād say that is likely true for many of us.
Too many ādebatesā in this thread as to the reasons for/against different ways.
They all boil down to the same answer - Plex server currently offers no easy way of client control.
We simply want multiple options that are not currently offered. Server side control of our clients in multiple ways.
Max upstream, max bitrate, and or max users at once, sure great starts.
Other features, icing on the cake (and honestly, a cake isnāt really a good cake without the icing)
