Is this a feature of Plex? What would I need to do to make this happen?

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I just recently got into Plex (where have I been?!).
Anyway, I have my drives connected to a computer in the living room (the server). I have a couple Apple TV’s in the house, where I stream my content via the Plex app.
My question is, am I actually streaming through the internet - cos that would seem overkill.
Is there a way to simply stream through my network, since we’re all on the same WiFi network?
Thanks, all! Hope this post isn’t too elementary.

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Plex will always establish a direct connection between your server and the clients. So if you’re in your own home network, no media will be streamed through the internet.

There’s been a number of reports where users had some odd home network setup that caused Plex server/clients not to see each other locally. In that case Plex tried to stream remotely. That in turn could result in indirect playback which is actually relayed through a server of Plex.
Again… that’s a lot of ifs. Default is it’ll stream locally :wink:

You can verify if your media is streaming locally on the “Now Playing” tiles of your Plex Media Server’s dashboard. When expanded, that tile will show if media is streamed…

  • local (=within your home network)
  • remote (=to a client outside your server’s home network)
  • indirect (=streams are relayed through a server of Plex)

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Thank you, sir! I feel like such an old fart just getting into the whole Plex world.

So if I’m getting this right, is this correct?
Settings>PlexWeb>Quality>Internet Streaming>Video Quality… this will change the quality ONLY when streaming outside my home network?

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That’s correct.
Most other client apps (e.g. for iOS/Android, big screen clients) have dedicated settings for home streaming, internet/remote streaming and mobile streaming (for mobile devices) to allow controlling if you want the media to be played at a lower size/quality. This can e.g. make sense if you have a limited internet upload bandwidth or a limited data plan on the applicable device.

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