Plex

Last month I was having trouble with Plex media server. When I was streaming a movie through my Xbox it would frequently fail to play a movie or tv show or it would get choppy and then stop playing. The error message I always got was that it lost connection to the PC. So I tried to restart Plex a few times and it would do the same each time I tried. I actually tried to see if i could stream to my Nexus 7 tablet and it would not connect to that even. So I thought maybe other people might have a solution on the Plex support forums. I didn't find much. Someone mentioned that maybe its a router issue. So I logged into my router played around a little bit with settings didn't seem to do much. It just hit me, maybe just reset it to factory settings. I did that and the Plex media server works great and actually my WiFi is a lot more stable too. I don't lose connection on my Nexus 7 anymore. I think now my network is fast than before.

A few weekends ago my Xbox prompted me to try and fix the connection to my Xbox. When it said that my NAT was set at strict. When I reset the router factory settings the upnp was not turned on which hurts the playability of some games like Black ops 2. I noticed and wondered about but didn't clue. Now its turned on and all is good. I have noticed that the Xbox has a hard time playing certain videos. I will have to play with some of the settings maybe with the transencoder or connection speeds.