Buffering Every 3 or So Seconds Remotely

Hello all,

I finally got my Plex and Channels Mac Mini up and running, and I went back to my apartment, away from where the server is and got a successful login into the server remotely. However, when I try to watch live TV via TVE, I get buffering every 3 or so seconds on my NVIDIA Shield TV (the cylander one) as well as my Amazon Fire TV.

Oddly enough, my Pixel 4 XL doesn't have these issues. I have the following hardware on the Mac Mini running Channels:

OS: Apple Macmini8,1
Darwin
10.15.5 (kernel: 19.5.0)
CPU
6 cores / Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700B CPU @ 3.20GHz
load averages: 2.51 2.23 1.81
RAM16.00 GB
68.5% free

Internet speed is 1 gig up and down via Fios, so it can't be a speed issue.

I am not sure if this is a transcoder problem. The system is set up to be headless, which might create a transcoder issue? But why do I have a fine stream from that same server to my Pixel?

Any help you can provide, I would appreciate.

Try the beta app from getchannels.com/beta

Hey Aman,

I'm so dumb. My download on the Shield was only 5 MBPS. Router and modem restart fixed everything.

Thank you, as always, for helping me out.

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