Well grab your hat your in for a ride! The Issue isn’t mainly with the newest PMP Client for Windows, as much as it is an issue with the Plex Media Server 1.14 to current build. With each new addition of what ever crap they are adding the Server software gets worse and worse, Ever since the newest update in Nov. 2018 The “Buffering Issue” comes and goes and Support/ Community can sometimes reproduce it and sometimes just blame us for something set wrong. Here is My solutions for what its worth:
Rollback or Install the older “Stable server and client” that was working fine and turn off Auto update and enjoy your experience…
Or…
Solution 2 is actually a 2 part solution…
Part A: Restart the OS the is running the PMP Client … about 30% of the time that fixes the issue… closing and restarting the client does nothing… hell you can even KILL all processes related to Plex and start it back up and it will still not help, but a clean reboot will…
Part B: If the above Fails then Close all plex Clients Restart the Computer Running your Plex Media Server (again restarting the software does nothing…), Then when the server has rebooted, Reboot all the Client devices that connect to it… (The issue with this is if u reboot the clients beforehand or fail to reboot them at all you will find yourself in Missing server/cannot connect to server/buffering/authentication Hell)
I hope this helps you on your journey to a working plex experience again that has been destroyed by all the new pay to win streaming crap being added to plex.
Sincerely a Loyal and Salty Lifetime Plex Pass Subscriber
