Using the new downloads feature, I am experiencing slower downloads than if I would directly download from my NAS. With the downloads feature, I peak 20MB/s and average around 10MB/s. When downloading directly from my NAS I reach speeds upwards of 50MB/s Server Version#: 1.23.4.4712 Player Version…

Already done and yes it does :slight_smile:

Ok, so there goes that idea. Still don’t know what’s causing this slowness.

I’m also having ridiculously slow downloads… although it happens with audio transcoding (flac to opus ogg). It’s like… it takes sometimes over 10 minutes for a 5 minute track. The transcoding appears to be the issue, as whenever it appears in the dashboard it really what seems to take a while. And…

[image] Update on new Downloads feature Mobile Devices Ok so I wanted to give my feedback about this, for some reason on my IOS devices (Iphone 12 Pro Max and M1 Ipad Pro 12 inch) when on remote connection, the upload speed on the server (since we cannot check the download…

Maybe. The slowness of downloads is either to a memory card or internal storage. Samsung S20 FE 5G.

I replied to you in the other thread. However, I have to say that this patch made things a bit worse. At least before my workaround I talked about in the other thread worked every time. Now, it’s a hit a and miss. That’s regression in my book.

It looks like the issue with SD cards is due to an SDK change made by Google in the name of security. They state that using the Media Store API is much faster than the file path access. Every developer started getting slow SD Card performance using file path access starting with Android 11. Andr…

I am also experiencing this issue. This is not related to SD cards as I can reproduce over all iOS/iPadOS devices I have access to. Each seems to download at around 10 Mbps with occasional spikes to hundreds of Mbps (the speed my wife can actually achieve). I am running Plex in docker using host ne…

Yeah this is still FUBAR. You’d think with the rolling out downloads this would finally be working. Similar situation as @liamb , running remotely on docker and just can’t download anything. If this could be looked into it would be greatly appreciated:)

Slow downloads using the new 'Downloads' feature

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anon18523487 December 24, 2021, 6:25am 80

@bmynars Please see my comment at the bottom of this other thread. If you don’t mind, try that out and see if that helps. Update on new Downloads feature - #81 by MovieFan.Plex

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Slow downloads using the new 'Downloads' feature

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