Odd listing of bandwidth

[RonRN18]

I noticed something odd on Sunday, as I was watching a football game.

First off, I have the latest version of Plex Media Server (v1.20.1.3252-a78fef9a9) installed in a jail on my FreeNAS system. I have a couple of SiliconDust HDHomeRun Extend tuners connected for DVR functionality, and I was streaming to my new 75" TCL television. I enabled DirectStream and MPEG2, as this TV decodes MPEG2 (unlike my other Roku devices). My FreeNAS device uses two aggregated 1 Gbps network connections to a network switch. All of my network switches are interconnected via 10 Gbps fiber but all of the ports are 1 Gbps ports. I say all this because of what I saw on my Plex dashboard:

I’m hoping that my graphic shows up… If not, it shows that the streaming bandwidth is 10 Gbps!!! I wish that were so, but as the TV is connected via 1 Gbps connection and the server is, at best, 2 Gbps, I see no way it is actually streaming at 10 Gbps.

By the way, due to the fact that there is no transcoding taking place between my tuner and my television, and the tuner was reporting a signal strength of 100%, Signal Quality of 98%, and Symbol Quality of 100%, it was an absolutely perfect picture quality. Much better than anything from a cable television provider. I am looking forward to receiving my new SiliconDust ATSC 3.0 tuner and my local stations transmitting in ATSC 3.0 so I can get an HEVC signal instead of MPEG2. Who knows when either thing happens… I’m told the tuner is on a boat headed to Los Angeles but no mention of any stations in our market moving to 3.0.

[anon18523487]

That means Plex couldn’t figure out the bandwidth. 10 Gbps is a cap value that is shown.

[RonRN18]

Thanks… I knew it was trivial, but it had me laughing. I was simultaneously transcoding the same feed to my brother in another state, who could not receive the game locally. He was streaming at a paltry 3 Mbps.

As I mentioned, I have two devices with two tuners each, meaning I could be streaming up to four programs at a time. I was recording the game, transcoding it to my brother, and watching it as a Direct Stream on my TV, but since it was all the same actual channel, it only counted as one, leaving the possibility of streaming three other TV shows from the tuners.