Plex Speed Bottleneck? VLC Streams Fine

QuickBox Support
#1

Hello!

I’m experiencing a rather frustrating issue with my Hetzner box, where I can download files with Chrome or stream through HTTP with VLC with no problem, yet I seem to have a bottleneck streaming with Plex or running iperf3 where I get less than 10 megabits requiring me to downgrade to a 4 megabit 720p stream.

It doesn’t seem to be CPU related, as I can have quite a number of users transcoding (it’s a good i7 CPU), and my initial thought was “well, the single connection speed to Hetzner must be awful from my ISP” but then when I discovered that I can download or stream through HTTP at a MUCH faster rate than I seem to get with Plex or through a single-threaded perf3 connection test, I’m realizing that something else might be going on.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thank you!

#2

Well this is interesting.

If I try to download the video file through PlexWeb, it goes at around 200-300 kilobytes/s, but if I download it through the Apache instance on my server, it goes at 4 megabytes/s+.

I’m guessing there might be some kind of traffic shaping going on with Hetzner because the Plex traffic is going over a different port? Or is there something in the QuickBox config I can look at?

#3

Hello @ottopocho,

Did you enable the Internet upload speed in the remote access settings from your Plex server ? (you need to show the hidden features)

#4

Hi @PastaGringo,

I tried that, but it didn’t seem to alter the crummy 300 kB/s speed I was getting, unfortunately.

Based on advice I received, I’m experimenting with an nginx reverse proxy to funnel the Plex traffic through port 443. I’ll let you guys know how that works out!

#5

Immediate improvement following this guide! https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/5ni728/plex_with_nginx_better_performance_and_everything/

Sadly I might have to stop using QuickBox since I’m not savvy enough to rewire everything to use nginx, etc.

#6

It looks like this is an issue in the latest version of Plex

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#7

Hm, as I said in that thread, it’s odd that proxying the server would fix the speed issue, assuming that’s the situation in my case.

#8

If you can get a second IP for your server you can actually run all of these in conjunction.

Run QB off the main IP and run nginx plex off the second IP