| > My number one recommendation is to make sure your AppleTV home hub is wired. Tragically, if you have the original ATV4 (September 2017), it's only got a 100Mb Ethernet port, which is embarassing for something released in 2017. Even more tragically, when I use Plex, I often find it's hitting some weird bug in the ATV4 where it will be unable to stream 10Mbps videos when wired, but has absolutely no problem streaming those same videos when on wifi, despite being less than 20 feet of copper cabling between the apple tv, network switch, and the Plex server. Of course, having an AC1700 wifi AP means that wifi is massively faster than wired for the ATV4, but shouldn't matter when the video peak bitrate is 10% of the max wired speed, but watching the monitoring of the server, the client is just requesting data at too low a rate. Never bothered to actually pcap it to identify, but I'm willing to bet that some weird condition was triggering on the ATV4 resulting in too low a TCP window size being used. Either way, "wired is always better" is generally true, unless you have an Apple TV 4th Generation. Then it's not always true. ..and even wired, my Hue lights are still slow to respond through Home.app, but immediate to respond to the physical zigbee button. |