Is this a normal looking bandwidth graph for one stream locally or is something wrong with it being so up and down? (The stream is not buffering.)
The reason that I ask is that something it looks like this (again not a problem playing for now).
Even if you notice no buffering, Plex will load the data for some seconds ahead of actually showing it. That’s not a linear process… so there’s no permanent data stream matching the file’s average bitrate. Instead, Plex will load a chunk of the video/audio data whenever its buffer runs below a certain threshold – hence the peaks.
As for the comparison… it appears, you played 1 higher bitrate video in the 2nd graph. You see the average bitrate at the bottom right of each graph:
- upper graph averages at 1 Mbps – could be some optimized SD content
- lower graph averages at 6 Mbps – could be a DVD remux or optimized HD video
as for your key/main question:
yes, those are perfectly normal graphs 
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