Hello,
I currently have two broadband connections in to my house, Talktalk and Sky, Both with 40 down and 6 up. I use a TL-R470t+ as the load Balancing router, and It bonds the connection, I get decent speeds all round.
Whenever I connect my Plex server, I cannot get anything to work for the remote access, I have done research on Double Nat, and I cannot seem to get a work around, I have only got a work around by connecting my Plex server to one of the main broadband connections, this helps remote access but then I can only download at one of the speeds.
Anything I am missing?
(The talktalk line has a BT Home Hub 6 as the router and the other line is a Sky connection with a sky router).
With two broadband connections, you’ll have two WAN IPv4 addresses, and you can only connect to a Plex server through one of these at the same time.
Plex needs a public IP address on the WAN side, and (in the case of IPv4+NAT) a mapped port from this public address to the internal private IP address on port 32400.
Can your load balancing router do this at all, ie can you access any other services that are hosted behind it (ssh, remote desktop, webserver, etc)?
You’ll never be able to bundle these connections, as your current load balancing is based on dividing outgoing connections between the two WAN routes. Plex however works with incoming connections, and clients will only connect to a server on one route.
If you had some sort of tunneling further upstream (this is what multipath TCP does) you could in theory get this to work, but as I understand you don’t have any infrastructure upstream to re-combine your two lines back into one external IP address.
Load balancing doesn’t double your speed, it just distributes connections if one is saturated. The most you will get is still 6mbps up. You will need to configure your load balancing so Plex is dedicated to one of the connections if you can.
