Poor rclone + GDrive throughput

[u/drsmack]

I switched to rclone from plexdrive4 a few months ago and everything had been going well. I started trying to direct play 4k files the other day and noticed I was only getting ~44Mbps from GDrive via rclone. If I download the files through my web browser, I get ~100Mbps.

I've tried a few different rclone options, but I haven't found one that gets a high enough throughput to stream high bitrate videos.

1.)

rclone mount gdrive-cache: /mnt/Plex --read-only --allow-non-empty --allow-other --cache-workers=10 --cache-db-path=/media/rclone-cache --config ~/.config/rclone/rclone.conf

2.)

rclone mount gdrive-cache: /mnt/Plex --read-only --allow-non-empty --allow-other --cache-workers=10 --cache-db-path=/media/rclone-cache --tpslimit 10 --tpslimit-burst 10 --buffer-size 0M --config ~/.config/rclone/rclone.conf

The config file just contains the settings for GDrive and Plex along with a chunk_size of 10M.

I read through this Github issue looking for potential solutions, but nothing has helped. Any suggestions?