as of today I noticed I can’t access my plex server at all when on my work’s wifi. But if i swtich to 4g i can watch plex just fine. But obviously mobile data isn’t truly unlimited high speed. And yes I only watch shit on my break. I have remote access enabled etc. Not sure what I can do?
Ask the IT guy about it.
This is the best idea. Just talk to them, best case they’ll help you with it, worst case is they’ll give you a talking to. Going around IT’s back is a very good way to get fired really quickly.
Bribe them with snacks. Source: Am IT. Have been bribed with snacks. You can bet that user got priority treatment from that day on.
Download some stuff to your phone/tablet for “offline” viewing. Your work has decided to restrict you from doing non-work stuff on their network and that’s their right.
I think this is only allowed with plexpass but I’m not positive.
i should mention i have lifetime plexpass
Then this is definitely your easiest and safest way to go: no new services to configure, no rolling the dice to see how upset the org will be about possible policy violations.
Wow, $120 to be able to download your own shit… I’m glad I chose jellyfin.
I paid $80 one time years ago
Fair enough, it probably made sense at the time. Still, disappointing from Plex.
It was the only game in town for ages, and the one-time payment thing for a lifetime pass was taken advantage of by a ton of people, including myself.
Inb4 they drop support for “lifetime” in a couple of years and tell you to pay for a monthly subscription
Correct
If they block plex, they probably block private vpns as well (or if they don’t you’d most likely be violating some policy). So other than politely asking your IT admin to unblock it, there’s exactly nothing you can do.
Try setting up tailscale
You don’t. Jesus Christ. It’s their network.
Step outside, touch grass and use the cell signal.
Get a better catchphrase, “touch grass” is so overused now it’s embarrassing.
Get fucked. Better?
Lol okay neckbeard
Hey, let’s be civil.
Go outside and punch a tree!
Great, now I’m out of touch and my hand hurts.
I came here to touch trees and smoke bubblegum … and I’m all out of touch.
I’m out of touch and want to play Minecraft!
Go tell IT you need a firewall rule modification for your Plex connection
Don’t, unless you don’t mind losing your job. They did it because they noticed people were watching stuff at work and they don’t want you to do it.
We don’t know their situation. Might be fine, and they just blocked most ports rather than specifically Plex’s. OP also said they only watch stuff on their break.
Fair enough, that could be the case. Some generic blocking setting. In that case others in this thread have given good technical suggestions.
It honestly depends on the network policies you’re dealing with. Some employers have strict security and won’t allow workarounds like vpns or proxies, and they really don’t want you connecting the network to other unsecured ones.
That said, I’d try a personal VPN (not necessarily a proxy one, just one that can connect you to your plex server on a shared network). If that doesn’t work, I really doubt it’s a good idea to connect to your plex server from their wifi anyway. If that’s the case, I would just download the media I want before I get to work
Since people here are critiquing you instead of actually assisting, I’d have you take a look at tailscale. You can use it to easily create a resistant vpn between your home and your work network, allowing the traffic to bypass filtering.
I’m not surprised that this site has its share of nosy neckbeards. I shall look into tailscale this weekend
Do that shit on your phone. I never understand how many people openly fuck around on company networks. 90% chance they’re logging everything you’re doing.
If you’re watching consecutive episodes of a series you can always just download them to your phone before you head to work. Not really viable if you hop around a lot, though.
I have an oracle free tier vps that I run reverse proxy on and have certs for subdomains for a domain I got on cloudflare. Cloudflare dns points to the vps, apache server proxy on port 80/443. On the vps I also have tailscale and another tailscale on a server at home advertising routes.
So I have music.mydomain for subsonic and plex.mydomain and files.mydomain for nextcloud, etc.
Its normal https web traffic so weird ports dont need to be accessed or remembered.
Is it possible to dumb this down? I’m pretty stupid
I simply changed my public port to 443 in Plex and made a port forward on my home router. 443 -> internal_ip:32400
How do I do this?
On your Plex server, you change the public port here
On your home router, you reserve the IP address (aka DHCP reservation) assigned to the machine hosting the Plex server (or you assign a static IP address to it) in my case it’s
192.168.1.90, then you make a port forward so that port 443 on your public address is forwarded to your internal_ip port 32400.Now the home router part is specific to your router brand and model, so you’ll have to do some research on your end.
I have spectrum so I have the default modem/router they provide which for my use case is just fine. In the spectrum app I can assign port forwards.
They might not be blocking plex, but blocking most ports that aren’t relevant to “normal” internet usage. E.g. just have ports 443, 80 and 8080 allowed.
You might have to steer a VPN through those ports too?
VPN to your home network (wg-easy is the easiest way to set this up) or change the public port of your server to something the work network will allow.
