So I was taking a look around settings and noticed that there is two locations to set streaming quality. Could some one explain the difference between the two..
First one is under Plex Web > Quality > Internet Streaming
The Second One is under Settings > Remote Access > Limit Remote Stream Bitrate
To me these seem redundant…
The first is for the client, receiving content.
The second is for the server, sending out content.
Thank you for the reply!
Still not completely sure on what that is suppose to do…
Could you give me a short and sweet use case?
In the first case you’re using the web client to watch content from a remote server. You’re setting the limit on your end and hopefully the remote server will honor that.
The second limits the bandwidth your server will send out to a remote client.
I don’t know how to state it any simpler. If that still doesn’t help, maybe someone else can come up with a better way of explaining it 
So realistically I can set the first one as high as I want, Doesn’t mean the server will honor the request by the client.
The second one I am setting the maximum per-client bandwidth that MY server will honor
Correct.
Plex players/servers communicate and try to pick the highest quality they are both configured for.
Or in other words, whatever is the slowest basically sets the speed limit for their connection.
Different clients will negotiate their own speed.
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