Server Version#: 1.25.0.5282
Player Version#: doesn’t matter - affect all clients
Hi. My plex media server is limited to 40-45 Mbps upload when remote playing. My internet upload is 300 Mbps, client download is 600 Mbps, yet if I play or try remote download, PMS will send at max 45 Mbps and it will cause stuttering with BD Rips.
Screenshoot: https://i.imgur.com/hOIvcma.png
This is irritating, my server is direct connected yet have some stupid limit. All sped is seet to some ridiculous values like 9999 Mbps in settings - does not matter.
This looks identical to my problem with remote streaming. Except mine only uploads at 6 mbps. I’m using windows server, same as you. It also affects all clients that try to play off of it, same as you. I’ll suggest something that helped me narrow it down to a windows + plex media server issue. Try putting PMS on a ubuntu 20.04 VM and see if the same upload problem exists. If it still exists, then the problem probably lies somewhere in your hardware/internet. As of right now, I’m running a ubuntu VM with plex installed. I mounted the media folders into the VM and managed to get quicksync to work on it (although it doesn’t say it’s HW transcoding, it is obviously HW transcoding because it behaves exactly as it did on my windows server). I’ve had zero remote streaming problems since.
While troubleshooting, I ran into a curious occurrence where when I reinstalled PMS on the machine and had my brother remote play, it played the file perfectly but once he restarted h is plex client, he had the 6mbps buffering. See the image below.
