Plex II

Had to try to install it on my server in Edinburgh and try to see how it would work in a remote scenario :)
The server is a quite old one Fujitsu TX120 Mk I 3GHz Xeon, 8GB, mostly about 50% occupied by my SBS 2011 running in Hyper V on the 2008 Server OS but I thought I should give it a try at least.
Installation worked fine but it was not possible to get to the setup web page as the browser is not updated, think it is some old IE8 on it. But starting Chrome on my Surface and remotely go the setup page remotely worked fine and it was quite quickly setup.
Had to open up the inbound port to let it connect to plex.tv but after that I could see it remotely how it was indexing my movies. Very good!!
Started a movie and it actually manage to stream it to the net player although I started pretty conservative by setting it to 200kb. Took a while before I saw something which was probably the transcoder working ahead a bit.. At least I got a picture and sound to is so I will try to see how high it can manage...

Not optimal setup as the server is placed on my ADSL line (uplink about 1MB) and I really want to utilize my Virgin cable with uplink speeds of about 10MB. But I have been lazy and connected my router to the Virgin modem so I am running a double NAT which effectively blocks most external access to internal computers so I have to put it in bridge mode instead and nothing I can do remotely so it has to wait until I come back.

But after that I can probably just either my old Surface Pro 2 or something else that is reasonably stationary to run the Plex server on as most of my computers probably would be faster than the old Xeon... The advantage using the server is that it is always on anyway...

Or else it will be a good excuse to try out one of the new Intel NUC form factors :)