Plex Media Server - Upload limit exceeded?

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Wonder how the Bandwidth Monitor can show peaks as high as 76 Mbps, when I have entered an Internet upload speed of 70 Mbps.

Based on the documentation the maximal upload should be 56 Mbps.

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From the documentation
“The Plex Media Server is smart enough to prevent saturating the bandwidth value specified here. It will only use 80% of this for streams both to ensure that normal network requests can be completed and because streams have variable bitrates and will naturally go up and down somewhat.”

Reference:
Server Settings – Bandwidth and Transcoding Limits

Server Version#: 1.15.1.707 (Windows)
Player Version#: Apple TV 4K (but other devices too)

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Keep in mind that the graph is an instantaneous value. If you have really fast internet it can send that packet in less than a second so the speed might look higher than your limit, but the actual throughput would still be within the limit you specified.

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