As the title suggests. My tv has a max 100mb/s ethernet, my wifi gets about 90 to 120mb/s connection. But it's not enough to play 4k via plex. I was wondering whether anyone knows if a gigabit ethernet adaptar would work.
Edit: Seems my problem is the new Plex update, it seems it screwed things up. Even movies or tv shows I already watched without any problem are now unplayable after the update.
What device?
I am having same problem with all my 4k content with Plex on a Shield and 2 Airtvs. Worked fine up until last night. This morning I updated the Plex Android TV app 6.13.6 and I still cannot play 4k content. VLC plays it fine on same devices also my Vizio TV plex app works fine as well. (TV app has not been updated). What could be the problem?
I'm fairly sure I was using an adapter with the Nexus Player and am now with the Shield because I just don't trust wifi. Just checked and my Shield isn't a client on my wifi so it must be wired.
Im losing my ethernet connection when waking up my mi box...Need to restart my box so I can gain my ethernet connectivity.Anyone have the same issue?
Yes - they do work. I've tested a few different ones (I just bought the cheapest ones from China on Amazon) and haven't found any that do not work.
However, I found that Wifi was consistently faster. I was limited by a USB2.0 interface, and then further by poor drivers.
You doing uncompressed 4k? If you are I don't think gigabit would be enough.
For compressed 4k, 100 meg is more than enough. You should even get two streams at once out of that.
Maybe look at your server for the problem. Hard drive failing. CPU can't handle a 4k transcode. Bad network cable.
The Plex Android TV app is crap for direct playing most types of audio, forcing a transcode that will be really hard to play smoothly. Which is why I never use it. Just pay the 60 bucks or whatever for a Roku. The Plex app is much, much better and will be able to direct play just about any content without issue.
Btw, you can look at the Plex server logs on your media server to determine exactly what is happening. 9/10 with Plex, it’s an issue with forced transcoding.
Isn't UHD bitrate around 45 Mbps?
Don't think it's internet bottlenecking your stuff.