I’ve been running my PMS for a number of years but I have only recently started adding a few additional users. Plex works fine on my local network but if there are multiple streams going outside of the local network it saturates my 10(ish)Mbps upload speeds and people start having buffering issues.
I’m running a dedicated server with reasonable specs (Will post if required) so i have set the server to ‘Make My CPU Hurt’ with no avail. I would look into upgrading my internet connection but where I am there is nothing with faster upload!
I agree with OttoKerner that there’s not much you can do at this point. Although, if you want to ensure that it’s not a CPU-limited issue, you should not set it to “Make my CPU hurt”. That increases the workload on the CPU. You should instead set it to “prefer higher speed encoding”.
You could also instruct your users to set their devices to a lower bitrate…but that, of course, requires others to take those actions. Hopefully server-side controls are coming sometime in the future, which would allow you to limit your remote users to a manageable bitrate (2mbps, for example).
I’m in a similar boat (20Mbps)… I just tell people to play with the client bitrate settings until it works then they can decide if it’s good enough or not.
