# Insufficient bandwidth for playback **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [August 19, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/insufficient-bandwidth-for-playback/155148 "2016-08-19T19:00:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![doh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/doh/32/4401_2.png) [@doh](https://forums.plex.tv/u/doh)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/insufficient-bandwidth-for-playback/155148/1 "2016-08-19T19:00:09Z")
Hi I’m running the latest PMS on a Windows VM. At home playback is excellent, and I have 80/20Mbps broadband and good upload and download speeds. Lately though when I try to play back anything remotely (web, android or Opera TV) it fails with the following error: > Not enough bandwidth for any playback of this item. Required minimum bandwidth is 146kbps and only 128kbps is available I have plenty of bandwidth so what else could be the problem? ---
**Author:** ![hthighway](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/hthighway/32/82003_2.png) [@hthighway](https://forums.plex.tv/u/hthighway)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/insufficient-bandwidth-for-playback/155148/2 "2016-08-19T19:45:07Z")
Are you sure, on the client, you have selected a quality setting high enough to allow the media to play? ---
**Author:** ![doh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/doh/32/4401_2.png) [@doh](https://forums.plex.tv/u/doh)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/insufficient-bandwidth-for-playback/155148/3 "2016-08-19T20:34:28Z")
I’ve tried it on Original, 1.5Mbps and down as low as 208 and 96kbps - all fail with the same error. And it even happens when on WiFi at a friends house too. ---
**Author:** ![hthighway](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/hthighway/32/82003_2.png) [@hthighway](https://forums.plex.tv/u/hthighway)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/insufficient-bandwidth-for-playback/155148/4 "2016-08-19T21:16:28Z")
Ah I just realized what it might be. Did you happen to set a bandwidth limitation back when that preference was viable in a previous version of PMS? You look at **preferences** to see if it is set, look for `WanPerStreamMaxUploadRate` and remove that setting and restart PMS. REF: [https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201105343-Advanced-Server-Settings](https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201105343-Advanced-Server-Settings) ---
**Author:** ![doh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/doh/32/4401_2.png) [@doh](https://forums.plex.tv/u/doh)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 9:53pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/insufficient-bandwidth-for-playback/155148/5 "2016-08-19T21:53:18Z")
That’s fixed it! I’ve never set that preference before, so I don’t know how it got set, but deleting it and re-starting does seem to have fixed it. Thank you!! ---
**Author:** ![dhruvb14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@dhruvb14](https://forums.plex.tv/u/dhruvb14)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2016, 1:20am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/insufficient-bandwidth-for-playback/155148/6 "2016-08-21T01:20:41Z")
@hthighway you are a savior! I’m really excited that they actually are enforcing this. I may use this to force people to not transcode to 1080P since i have not 1080 content!! Can’t wait till they perfect this 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2016, 2:42am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/insufficient-bandwidth-for-playback/155148/7 "2016-08-21T02:42:20Z")
> @dhruvb14 said: > @hthighway you are a savior! I’m really excited that they actually are enforcing this. I may use this to force people to not transcode to 1080P since i have not 1080 content!! Can’t wait till they perfect this 🙂 If you don’t have 1080p content, then nobody will get a 1080p stream out of your server. Plex doesn’t upscale. It makes no sense. ---
**Author:** ![Dimtar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/dimtar/32/82828_2.png) [@Dimtar](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Dimtar)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 12:06pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/insufficient-bandwidth-for-playback/155148/8 "2016-10-16T12:06:38Z")
I am having this problem, the setting has been set because of the new streaming brain stuff to 20mbps. The trouble is this is local content and surely that shouldn’t affect it? EDIT: This workaround worked for me. > **[StreamingBrain options forcing transcoding also in local network](http://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1271507/#Comment_1271507)** > > What’s happening is the client (chromecast) is reporting itself as being on the WAN, so the server is applying WAN bandwidth restrictions to it. There is an advance pref in Network which can override this called LAN Networks. It appears you are... ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/insufficient-bandwidth-for-playback/155148/9 "2020-01-07T21:46:57Z")