Sometime last year my plex server speeds became unbearably slow. I’m using a client in WA, while the server is hosted in MA. Firstly the server is getting slower speeds than it should (advertised as 880 mbps upload but I’m getting about 160) but that’s probably an issue with the networking setup. Wh…

Actually, ended up having a solution that isn’t making a new server! I mean, I’m still gonna do that anyways so I have another testbed, but I just spun up a DigitalOcean droplet in NYC since that was the closest to the MA server. Then I just proxied the traffic from the droplet to plex, and disabled…

Slow server speeds (2mbps) despite high iperf test

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SOOPEROODAY February 3, 2025, 5:35pm 3

Unfortunately nope, it’s on direct play and still has this issue

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Slow server speeds (2mbps) despite high iperf test

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