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I'm going to give you guys the keys to the kingdom. If you do a reddit search for "plex server sale" you will find dudes that share membership to their curated Plex server.

I pay $20 for a server with nothing but 4K remuxes (zero-quality loss from 4k blurays). 5 streams, no transcoding allowed, so you need an nvidia shield because after testing a bunch of devices those are the only ones that play _everything_ without transcoding, even DTS and Dolby Vision.

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I'm not doing this, but my friends and I link our Plex boxes so we can see sports in different regions. If you can get enough of them going you should be able to see every NFL game. Too bad baseball is mostly on cable.

Distance to the Plex source can be an issue. My friend in Canada shared his Plex server with me living in Western Australia, and Plex struggles immensely to stream his server to me on the other side of the world.

Even at a distance it should be okay, sounds more like a peering/bandwidth issue between your ISP and his