I can't believe that Plex as a streaming service/app doesn't have this high up on their radar.
I personally don't have a slow system (8 cores) or a slow upload (its not insane but 50Mb up is good enough for 720p).
My problems is that I am on one ISP (Verizon) and a majority of my other users are on another ISP (Bright House) within the same area/zip code. All the traffic from my ISP gets routed 5 states away on a over worked and under powered partner edge router. I should be able to push up to 7MB a second to them. But they get more like 30k to 100k a second if they are lucky. Any of the users that are on Verizon have no issues and get HD streams.
 I'm kind of stuck with out a good buffering solution.
I guess the bottom line is I am looking for some light at the end of this tunnel. I cant upgrade to fix this. And neither can my users. And the ISPs can care less. They would just troll me and tell me to switch to their over price and under performing service. And since my service isnt as ubiquitous as the other ISP, I can't tell my users the same thing (switch to my ISP).
This needs to happen. That being said I wouldn't take silence from devs as a bad thing, I've seen elan mention this thread in another post (I'll try to find the link). This type of feature seems like it would need to be thoroughly tested before going live. Now that Plex Home and the xbox/ps apps are out the door it seems to me that this might be something that gets targeted. Hoping to see some movement on this this year...
Ironically, if you are the admin of the system away from home you can just download the file and watch it in the browser as it downloads. Â If you pause the video, the download still continues and you get the "buffer" you are looking for.
Ironically, if you are the admin of the system away from home you can just download the file and watch it in the browser as it downloads. If you pause the video, the download still continues and you get the "buffer" you are looking for.
True, you can always mount the share, but if your content has a high bit rate then you may have to wait 4 hours to stream a 2-hour movie.
Even if we could figure out a workaround, I still rather have something officially implemented. I might be able to figure out some technical vudo but the majority of my family and friends wont be.
Plus, the trend in my user base is not using a PC/Laptop to consume the media. I have XBox, PS, Roku and smart devices (TVs) as the most common clients. And a work a around wont help them.
