Yes, "max paths" means MPP.
You can also select channels you want to sue for that payment.
Yes, Alby doesn't have (yet) this function for MPP.

Thanks @DarthCoin, I always appreciate your help. Sorry for my ignorance, still trying to learn this stuff. 

When you say to use MPP, are you referring to the "max paths" option in thunderhub when sending? I've actually never sent directly out of thunderhub, always just through alby, but I should probably change that. 

My intention for having my node is to receive payments mostly. Receiving paymens for products that I sell, and also purchasing more sats on RoboSats and sending out to atomic swap for coin control before cold storage. 

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So now, after you saw that video demo, I hope you understand where could be the problem: those channels somewhere in between do not have enough liquidity for your HTLC (amount of sats to go through a HTLC) or they are using some kind of filter in HTLC size for your channels.

My advice (now that I see you have also Thunderhub installed):

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1. Start9 is not a node, is just an UI for a node. When I refer to "node type" it means:
- private or public (announced or unannounced channels)
- type of LN implementation (LND, CLN, LDK, Rust, Eclair). There are (still) some incompatibilities between implementations si is good to mention what type of node you are running.
3. Nice balanced :)

So now, after you saw that video demo, I hope you understand where could be the problem: those channels somewhere in between do not have enough liquidity for your HTLC (amount of sats to go through a HTLC) or they are using some kind of filter in HTLC size for your channels.

My advice (now that I see you have also Thunderhub installed):
- try to use a specific channel (create the payment with specific route) when you pay
- try to use MPP (multi-part payment) with 2-3 channels and many shards. That means your payment can go through multiple channels and using multiple small parts. If one of those peers is limiting the HTLC size, by using MPP you also reduce the HTLC size, bust is like sending multi tiny parts at once.
- increase the fee % willing to pay for that payment.