Remote streams max out at 2mbps

[jo2jo]

is this bug / thread related to the issue ive been battling for many years now? (ie majority of my clients are at 2mbit or less, direct connections, even with different physical PMS over the years, 250m/250m fiber):

Apple tv 4k, keeps playing 2mbit, bandwidth clearly available

I mean making an all-MP4 test file to try to pinpoint where this goes wrong. Does Plex think: “this movie cannot be direct played because of wrong video/audio formats so it needs to be transcoded - which then happens at too-low bitrates” or does it think “the bandwidth is too small, it needs to be transcoded to low-bitrate video”? That insecure connections get tunnelled in your case is very odd though. I can totally see how this is super frustrating. By the way do your clients and server both …