I have Rasplex on a RPi2 (1.01) and one thing that has bugged me since I started using it was the extreme slowness and unreliability when trying to use the skip or FF/RW functions remotely over the Internet. My family members who have this device (which I built) always comment that there is no reliable way to fast forward past commercials in my TV media, which is true....certainly not as reliable or easy as Netflix.
My server is fairly powerful and my WAN connection is 10M up (100M down). I think it simply has to do with the product - whether that means PHT or the RPi2 hardware. I have not tested anything else yet remotely, which is why I'm posting this for advice.
Is this just the way all Plex clients are remotely? Or all PHT clients? Is there something that would behave better, even at a higher price point? What about the new Plex Media Player preview? Anybody compare the behavior of the two clients remotely?
(Yes, the web client works well remotely, but any given laptop CPU is also 10x faster than a RPi2 and you can just "point" to the timeline to make it jump in a browser, so that's not apples to apples.)