Plex Cloud

@im85288 said:
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 was having the same issue with rclone so I switched over to lftp using cygwin on my windows pc. I’m now maxing out my connection and have been for the last few days.

Thanks for the tip, I’ll give that a try in the hope I can get some decent upload speeds going on. 2 weeks and only 550gb so far :frowning:

I’ve had success with mounting my Amazon Drive in linux using a Debian based release, Ubuntu/Mint.

The software is called acd_cli. It’s pretty simple to setup and is quite fast.

I found this blog article that explains how to setup acd_cli and end to end encryption that works with Plex Cloud.
Mounting Amazon Cloud Drive and Uploading Encrypted Data

Props to the amc_user over at the Automated Media Centre blog for the awesome write-up.

BG

@thebestbradley said:
I’ve had success with mounting my Amazon Drive in linux using a Debian based release, Ubuntu/Mint.

The software is called acd_cli. It’s pretty simple to setup and is quite fast.

I found this blog article that explains how to setup acd_cli and end to end encryption that works with Plex Cloud.
Mounting Amazon Cloud Drive and Uploading Encrypted Data

Props to the amc_user over at the Automated Media Centre blog for the awesome write-up.

BG

But that will NOT work with Plex Cloud and Plex Cloud is what the original question was about.

No form of encryption will work with Plex Cloud at this time and it really is unlikely that encryption will become an option in the future for Plex Cloud.

Anything that makes an encrypted drive look like a regular drive locally will work with regular locally hosted Plex. StableBit’s Cloud Drive, Netdrive and many many others work fine with a locally hosted Plex server but none of them work with Plex Cloud with encryption enabled. Plex Cloud is unable to read an encrypted drive or encrypted files.

@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.

What issues are there on the Amazon side?

@gregg098 said:

@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.

What issues are there on the Amazon side?

Overly aggressive rate limiting for one thing. There may be other issues as well but the communication from Amazon to the Plex Cloud user community is somewhat less than ideal without the Plex developers acting as intermediates. Hopefully when the Plex crowd returns from their retreat we will see more progress from Amazon as well as Plex.

Thanks to everyone who made such helpful comments and replies. It sounds like this has more to do with the pathetic upload speeds offered by Telstra in this part of the world. Despite paying a fortune of their top of the range cable offering, I can, at best, achieve a 2.7MBs upload. Sounds like it’s going to be a long haul - but I’m determined!

@austar123 said:
Thanks to everyone who made such helpful comments and replies. It sounds like this has more to do with the pathetic upload speeds offered by Telstra in this part of the world. Despite paying a fortune of their top of the range cable offering, I can, at best, achieve a 2.7MBs upload. Sounds like it’s going to be a long haul - but I’m determined!

At least you can upload :smiley: I’ll trade you my 1.5 Mbps if you like =))

I am thankful for a gig connection. Though it’s only 250 up I can average just under a TB every 24 hours in upload. So far I’m over 6 TB I have 12 TB total locally.

I used GoodSync and uploaded 2.5TB in about 6.5 days. I have a 250Mb/250Mb connection and was able to maintain roughly 30mbps to Amazon for the upload.