Everyday more and more people are getting stuck behind Carrier Grade NATs (CGNATs) and other impenetrable double NATs. These people have to rely on Plex relay to watch their home media outside their network. In which case they have to deal with a low quality 1 megabit stream if they are a regular user and even if they are a Plex Pass user they’ll only be able to go up to a measly 2 megabit stream.
I understand it is not feasible for Plex to provide free unlimited unmetered bandwidth through their servers for everybody on Plex, that is why I propose Plex allow its users to pay a monthly fee to increase their bandwidth limit, It doesn’t have to be a lot. 4 simultaneous 8 megabit streams with a 100 Gigabyte data cap for a couple bucks a month seems reasonable especially when you compare it to what VPN providers are charging. Obviously there could be tiers where users pay more for higher bandwidth and higher data caps. Plex could even give discounts to Plex Pass users to entice regular users to upgrade to Plex Pass or whatever.
Access to one’s media library outside one’s home is one of the key selling points of Plex, by fulfilling my request Plex will allow all those people who are stuck behind Double NATs and those people who don’t want to open up their ports or change their network settings on their router the ability to view their content outside their home network just like other happy Plex users. Not only will this make customers happy it will also bring in new revenue for Plex.
I think this is a brilliant idea. But, if the people behind plex cant even be arsed to reply, I would just keep your good ideas to yourself.
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would love this idea even attach it to a personal remote dynamicDNS or some other approach to allow for more steady connections
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Are you not able to pay for a static IP from your provider?
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I live in India and I can’t get any ISP in my region to sell me an IPv4 address, they only sell those to business customers who can prove they need it. India has next no IPv4 addresses left, just to put this in perspective the United States with a population of about 315 Million people has about 1.5 Billion IPv4 addresses while India has only about 35 Million IPv4 addresses for a population of 1.2 Billion people.
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not my account thur apartment and not allowed to run a direct connection.
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The only way I can access to my plex server outside my home is server through Relay no matter how hard I try not work other way (DMZ, port forwarding not work) It would be awesome if the quality was a little bit better. I know plex have to pay for the servers and bandwith but it could be a exclusive feature for Plex pass lifetime users.
Because I bough plex pass lifetime but my video quality is not the expected 
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In todays AWS & Azure cloud-worlds , it really can’t be that much of problem to have this deployed in no-time with a very low cost footprint. (current relay services are probably already in AWS)
Fully agree that CGNAT is very present, just like IPv6-only setups. (and Plex does not fully work on native IPv6 last time I checked)
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This issue isnt going away. Hopefully the folks over at plex see this as an opportunity for some more recurring revenue and jump on this.
This seems like such a low hanging fruit to make more money, if communicated/marketed properly. Can’t be difficult to implement as well. The feature is already there to differentiate between free and plex pass users.
As a Plex lifetime pass owner, I’d love to pay for more Relay bandwidth.
I would pay for this feature!
An alternative would be to allow self hosted private plex relay server that we can run on a cloud provider.
