olliepopsicle
I don’t think the bandwidth requirement is the cause of the issue because as I mentioned it worked for months before on the same media, even the previous day when I was testing it played the whole movie through and I was using the same internet connection on both ends. It literally seems like something happened “overnight” that caused the issue
Yes, I agree, this isn’t likely to be strictly a bandwidth issue. I’m knocking down other possibilities for due diligence.
I recommended to my friend he switch to Frontier FIOS (also available in his area) which isn’t experiencing these problems.
I was visiting another friend today who is 60 miles away, and using a Roku unit on Comcast Xfinity service. My server is running Version 1.13.0.5023 (May 10) and has a 30Mbps uplink speed. Version 1.13.0.5023 (May 10) used to work with 18Mbps media over my internet connection. We were able to watch the movie, but had to set the bandwidth down to 2Mbps. Even 3Mbps wouldn’t play without “buffering”. Considering the “stated” bandwidth from Comcast, 75Mbps, this is absurd. I think this test combined with playing locally at 18Mbps works flawlessly is sufficient to say the problem is probably Comcast, not Plex. Plex developers may be able to find a way around whatever is happening, but they didn’t cause the problem.
I need to find another friend with Frontier service to verify he can play remotely at 18Mbps.
