I had sort of computer dilemma yesterday. I rent a server from Kimsufu that basically torrents tv shows and movies and then it uses Plex to stream them to about 15 of my friends and family. Generally this works well.
But a few days ago Comcast doubled my download speed at home to 50Mbp/s. My initial excitement wore off fast when I discovered that peering to the plex server (in Canada) was completely destroyed. sFPT speed to the server was shot too. I was barely pulling 100KB/s so I was getting massive buffering in plex.
So I tried spinning up a droplet on Digital Ocean in the SF DC for better peering. In about 20 minutes I had a VPN going and this solved my slow speeds. But now I must use the VPN if I want to stream from my server in Canada.
While dealing with this my roommate said his Fire TV was having massive buffering too. It also connects to my plex server. The Fire TV doesn’t have a native way to use a VPN. Around this time my sister texts complaining of massive buffering.. She lives six miles away and also uses a Fire TV and Plex and Comcast.
Now I am fucked. And getting kinda pissed that people are getting upset about a service I provide for free that isn’t working. (I pay 30 a month for the server and never have asked for help with the bill)
And the worst part is I got the Fire TV for my sister for Christmas and a week later it stopped working.
Sooo… My only option is to get SPMC (fork of KODI/XMBC) with the PleXMBC plugin going on the Fire TV. This took a very long time.
Long story short. I didn’t even realize it was the 31st until my dickhole neighbors shot fireworks off. To make things even worse is that after spending all these hours getting the Fire TV’s to work the first fucking thing my sister watched was The.Real.World.S30E03.Three.Way.HDTV.x264-W4F FML…