Do you have transcoding turned off? Sometimes it wants to play in “maximum quality” or something which is actually transcoding.

Are both your devices using Ethernet or WiFi?

They showed and talked about it in the keynote too. It’s not like this is some last minute surprise.

I can’t do timestamped links on mobile, but it’s at 6:27: https://youtu.be/TX9qSaGXFyg

"To start, we’re offering each Premium individual, as well as plan managers for Family and Duo accounts, 15 hours of listening per month—giving them the ability to enjoy as many titles as they want within that monthly allocation.

[…]

For those super audiophiles who use up their 15 hours before their monthly billing cycles refresh, you can purchase a 10-hour top-up to finish that series. Not sure how many hours you have left? Check it at any time in your in-app settings. "

No cost listed on how much the top-ups are.

You could accomplish this with Tasker if you wanted to dip your toes into some programming.

I guess compared to your situation, they’re fantastic. I have a static IP and copper connection, but they don’t offer any symmetric plans. I’m stuck with 200down/15up and the best up they offer is 500down/25up.

I’ve got a 1070 that I use for transcodes and some tonemapping where necessary and I don’t have GPU related issues (My ISP causes their own problems). I can usually run a few small streams at once, and I have a PC that I use to handle files too large to reliably stream to my Chromecast with Google TV over WiFi.