# Plex keeps pausing

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-keeps-pausing/746885>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [September 29, 2021, 5:44pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-keeps-pausing/746885 "2021-09-29T17:44:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![fredfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fredfish](https://forums.plex.tv/u/fredfish)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 5:44pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-keeps-pausing/746885/1 "2021-09-29T17:44:24Z")

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Hi all - if there is somewhere better to put this please let me know.

I have a full lifetime pass and have set up plex media server up on my computer for personal use. I stream to an Amazon Fire stick on the same network. Up until recently (perhaps a couple of months ago) everything was fine. Now when I stream playback pauses after a few minutes and dosent restart. This also happens when I am using Plex to view stuff on the same computer it is stored on. I am using Windows 10.

TIA

John

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**Author:** ![mcrommert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@mcrommert](https://forums.plex.tv/u/mcrommert)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-keeps-pausing/746885/2 "2021-09-29T17:57:27Z")

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When i have had this issue it was usually due to either cpu load maxing out on the computer - but more often harddrives being unable to feed data to plex due to being used for other tasks - i would check those first

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-keeps-pausing/746885/3 "2021-12-28T17:58:12Z")

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