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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by yuuunikki@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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?

Update: turns out I'm an idiot and my HD bay was turned off hence why I couldn't get into my plex/media. Now I can view it all just fine at work.

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[-] baronvonj@lemmy.world 80 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 7 points 8 months ago

I think this is only allowed with plexpass but I'm not positive.

[-] yuuunikki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 8 months ago

i should mention i have lifetime plexpass

[-] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 25 points 8 months ago

Wow, $120 to be able to download your own shit... I'm glad I chose jellyfin.

[-] yuuunikki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 8 months ago

I paid $80 one time years ago

[-] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 12 points 8 months ago

Fair enough, it probably made sense at the time. Still, disappointing from Plex.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 12 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 5 points 8 months ago

Inb4 they drop support for "lifetime" in a couple of years and tell you to pay for a monthly subscription

[-] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 8 months ago

That's why I have Jellyfin configured alongside it at replicas=0 just waiting to be spun up

Yeah, using jellyfish as a failover is my plan too for when something shitty inevitably happens

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 5 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] Thavron@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago
[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 39 points 8 months ago

You don't. Jesus Christ. It's their network.

Step outside, touch grass and use the cell signal.

[-] Moghul@lemmy.world 36 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] Moghul@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Fair enough, that could be the case. Some generic blocking setting. In that case others in this thread have given good technical suggestions.

[-] deranger@sh.itjust.works 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

VPN to LAN, great for remote access of other things on your home LAN as well. Once connected it will be as if your phone was on your home WiFi.

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

Don't do this. This is going to trip alarms on any half decent IDS, and your net admins are busy enough without having to write up a report to go to the HR people deciding if they are going to fire you for breaking the computer use policy

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Using a VPN on wifi shouldn't trip anything.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 8 months ago

Whose WiFi? The companies WiFi? Why would that be any different to the wired network?

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[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 10 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] jeffreyosborne@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

Use a vpn. Cloudflare warp isn't officially a vpn iirc, but it does unblock any site.

[-] parmesancrabs@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

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?

[-] Ptsf@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] yuuunikki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago

I'm not surprised that this site has its share of nosy neckbeards. I shall look into tailscale this weekend

[-] dumblederp@aussie.zone 6 points 8 months ago
[-] InputZero@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago

Bribe them with snacks. Source: Am IT. Have been bribed with snacks. You can bet that user got priority treatment from that day on.

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

Try setting up tailscale

[-] Brickardo@feddit.nl 4 points 8 months ago

How about you do your work instead?

[-] yuuunikki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 8 months ago

This doesn't answer my question , next!

[-] Brickardo@feddit.nl 3 points 8 months ago

Well, I do truly hope you get caught in the act.

[-] yuuunikki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 months ago

This doesn't answer my question, next!

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 5 points 8 months ago

How about you mind your own fucking business? Maybe they watch something on their break?

[-] Sarsoar 3 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] yuuunikki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago

Is it possible to dumb this down? I'm pretty stupid

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I simply changed my public port to 443 in Plex and made a port forward on my home router. 443 -> internal_ip:32400

[-] yuuunikki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago
[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] yuuunikki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

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.

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