# Plex stops buffering every 5 minutes

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-stops-buffering-every-5-minutes/786873>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-windows\
**Created:** [April 7, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-stops-buffering-every-5-minutes/786873 "2022-04-07T19:46:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![nestors22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/74df32/32.png) [@nestors22](https://forums.plex.tv/u/nestors22)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-stops-buffering-every-5-minutes/786873/1 "2022-04-07T19:46:34Z")

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Hello Plex people  
I’m kinda desperate lol i hope someone could actually help me  
I have the latest version of plex media server installed on my computer at home running Windows 10 2004.  
It is connected to a full bandwidth ethernet network (1Gbs down 500Mbs up 1ms ping) so there is no chance that this is the bottleneck, especially when i stream upon LAN  
The computer itself runs a ryzen 3600X with 32Gb of RAM, it clearly has the potential to handle plex flawlessly.

My problem is that whenever and wherever i try to play a movie from the plex online player, on a remote client, the player instantly buffers 5min of playtime, then stops buffering, and when i eventually reach the 5min playtime mark it stops playing and keeps buffering forever. Then I hit F5, it buffers instantly the 5 next minutes, and the same problem occurs 5 minutes later.

This is particularly annoying, pressing f5 every 5 minutes completely ruins the watch experience, but I didn’t manage to find any setting that could get it to work continuously.

Anyone have an idea?  
Many thanks!

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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:** [July 6, 2022, 7:47pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-stops-buffering-every-5-minutes/786873/2 "2022-07-06T19:47:10Z")

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