I was delighted to be part of the Plex Cloud group since it seemed to offer the perfect solution to making my video collection available anytime anywhere with little if any effort on my part. I have to say, after a week of operation, that I have reverted to hosting my collection on my QNAP NAS. This is entirely due to the time it seems to take to upload my files to Amazon Drive. A single 1.5GB movie takes over 12 hours to upload - and this is on a cable connection! Perhaps it will be better if/when Plex offer support for Dropbox or OneDrive which seem to be much faster. Does anyone else have the same problem?
I can only speak from experience of uploading about 50gb to Amazon Drive, but it took about 24 hours to complete.
using the Amazon tools takes a long time… a more intelligent tool like rclone is faster.
All upload times subject, of course, to bandwidth shaping by your ISP
Thanks for the advice. I’m sure Amazon are throttling the upload speed to 500k or less, so I’ve ceased using Plex Cloud Server and reverted to my NAS solution. Perhaps Plex and one of the other Cloud providers will give a better solution down the track.
@austar123 said:
Thanks for the advice. I’m sure Amazon are throttling the upload speed to 500k or less, so I’ve ceased using Plex Cloud Server and reverted to my NAS solution. Perhaps Plex and one of the other Cloud providers will give a better solution down the track.
there is no throttle in place by amazon, I can get a pretty sustained 100Mbps upload consistantly.
Amazon is not throttling uploads, I have been reaching speeds up to 900Mbps
I am not sure why you are having so much trouble uploading to Amazon. I have just been using the Amazon Drive app and am easily uploading 150 GB every day. It doesn’t seem to matter what time of the day I try I always get my max upload speed (I have 150 down / 20 up).
I am too having issues with Amazon upload. I have 38up but it’s so slow and everything is hardwired properly. I am also using odrive which is uploading much quicker but still not amazing it’s so frustrating as people with slower speeds are getting more uploaded than I am
I’m suffering from the same slow upload speeds, maxing out at approx 300 kb/s. Tried rclone with no difference at all in the upload speed. Speedtests show the capable upload speed on my connection to be approx 6 mb/s so there is a huge difference there.
I’m still waiting for my invite, but put up 2 TB into amazon since the announcement. Can’t wait to try it out.
I was able to upload about 4TB over the last two weeks and I did not have it running 24x7. You need to keep in mind that your download speed doesn’t matter. Most people with cable internet have very fast download speeds and much slower upload speeds. I have symmetrical service at around 80Mbps and that is why it is taking me so much less time than some of the folks on this thread.
I saw a dramatic increase when I upgraded our 5 Mbps upload to 150. I am uploading about 1TB each day now, so it’s definitely not Amazon throttling things.
It can be pretty awful in the US using standard cable providers. Uploads generally range in the 10 Mb/s and lower. The other problem, of course, is the misunderstanding between big “B” and little “b”. Cable operators love to talk about the nice big number, but transfer apps don’t typically report in bits, only bytes. A number of the complaints I’ve seen are actually correct numbers based on their reported speed.
The only other advise I’ve seen regarding Amazon specific issues is to stay away from the web interface when doing uploads. That will give you substandard results.
I wonder how I can update my data for plex cloud beta.
When requesting access to the beta I wasn’t a member of pass plex but now I am a member of plex pass. thanks
@takota said:
I wonder how I can update my data for plex cloud beta.
When requesting access to the beta I wasn’t a member of pass plex but now I am a member of plex pass. thanks
I think a lot of us are in a similar position, in that we are waiting to be added to the cloud beta access. Best thing to do is to assure your data is in the cloud (amazon drive)…personally I started the uploading procedure (24x7) over a week ago, so far only 358gb has been uploaded…just another 4TB’s to go…and then onto my movies!
hey i was wondering how can i become a beta tester for plex cloud because i’ve had ple pass for quite sometime now and i’ve also had amazon dive for a while to i currently have about 4tb of media on my amazon cloud that i would love to use but for some reason i haven’t gotten an invite…now that i think about it i might have selected something wrong when going through the options… i was so excited that this was happening that i rushed to sign up.
@mavingakingwarner said:
hey i was wondering how can i become a beta tester for plex cloud because i’ve had ple pass for quite sometime now and i’ve also had amazon dive for a while to i currently have about 4tb of media on my amazon cloud that i would love to use but for some reason i haven’t gotten an invite…now that i think about it i might have selected something wrong when going through the options… i was so excited that this was happening that i rushed to sign up.
The beta (which has regressed due to amazon’s issues back to more alpha-like) is being controlled in the number of seats. As amazon gets their side in order and Plex Cloud stabilizes, more will be included. We as ninjas do not have any insight to those internal decisions about who is selected or why. All that can be done is to patiently wait.
I’m certain word will spread like wild fire when Amazon gets their side in order and full Plex Cloud beta testing can resume.
@ChuckPa said:
@mavingakingwarner said:
hey i was wondering how can i become a beta tester for plex cloud because i’ve had ple pass for quite sometime now and i’ve also had amazon dive for a while to i currently have about 4tb of media on my amazon cloud that i would love to use but for some reason i haven’t gotten an invite…now that i think about it i might have selected something wrong when going through the options… i was so excited that this was happening that i rushed to sign up.The beta (which has regressed due to amazon’s issues back to more alpha-like) is being controlled in the number of seats. As amazon gets their side in order and Plex Cloud stabilizes, more will be included. We as ninjas do not have any insight to those internal decisions about who is selected or why. All that can be done is to patiently wait.
I’m certain word will spread like wild fire when Amazon gets their side in order and full Plex Cloud beta testing can resume.
thank you very much Sensei you are a very wise ninja ^:)^
New to the party, so pardon any faux pas’s or dumb questions.
I think I requested an "invite " to get the public beta. Never received notice that I am on the list.
How can I find out?
Thanks in advance.
Chazz
@austar123 said:
I was delighted to be part of the Plex Cloud group since it seemed to offer the perfect solution to making my video collection available anytime anywhere with little if any effort on my part. I have to say, after a week of operation, that I have reverted to hosting my collection on my QNAP NAS. This is entirely due to the time it seems to take to upload my files to Amazon Drive. A single 1.5GB movie takes over 12 hours to upload - and this is on a cable connection! Perhaps it will be better if/when Plex offer support for Dropbox or OneDrive which seem to be much faster. Does anyone else have the same problem?
@austar123 It really does matter what your service provides, I have fios 100/100mbs. My first 2TB drive (1.5TB of data) I uploaded took 5 days to upload all movies 1.5gbs or larger, but my 2nd 2TB drive (1.7TB of data) with TV shows and Movies only took 4 days. When you consider it took you probably months to fill these drives up 5 days isn’t much to ask to upload to the cloud.
