Hi everyone, I’m a long time lifetime subscriber to Plex… Is it really true that Plex is STILL unable to accommodate CG-NAT / CGNAT from these 5G internet solutions such as T-mobile Home Internet.???
Nearly every smart device on the market can accommodate CG-NAT, including blink cameras, Arlo Cameras, Feit smart switches, etc.
How can it be that PLEX hasn’t adapted to support this widespread (and growing) technology?
Am I missing something here?
Sorry to rant, I’m just really frustrated…
Those services stream the video to you from their datacenter, not from the devices themselves. Plex can do this but is limited to 2mbps (and maybe you have to have a PlexPass). You might be able to use a service to get a static IP for your CGNAT connection if you search around. Something like tailscale might work well for you.
I was able to use free Cloudflare tunnels to get around the CGNAT… I run PLEX on a QNAP NAS, which allowed me to fairly easily install a cloudflared container, which then tunnels out.
Plex is reachable for the most part, but the admin page thinks it’s indirectly connected. Also, the remote clients are much slower to show good remote connectivity.
The content appears to stream perfectly, so I guess that’s the most important thing…
Glad you got it sorted.
CG-NAT has been around for decades, it’s not a new thing. As said by @drinehart, there are workarounds with tunnels but none of them are easy, cheap or private.
Fortunately IPv6 (which most people have now) solves the CG-NAT issue permanently, although even there, some ISPs like T-Mobile USA choose to block all incoming connections to users, and workarounds with tunnesl are still needed.
Most people is probably a little hopeful, at least in my neck of the woods.
Will if you’re really in the woods, you’ve probably got Starlink - with IPv6 
In the developed world today, a bit over half of home internet users have IPv6 now. But yeah, that still leaves a lot of people without coverage. It’s an annoying situation. And it’s even worse if you do have IPv6, but the ISP still blocks all incoming connections (like T-Mobile USA)
I have starlink for my RV, but in my home I have a fiber connection that does not support IPv6 yet. Our local cable provider is using IPv6 but it still didn’t work for me before I switched to fiber. I do have IPv6 on my TMHI connection for the RV, but as you said no incoming ports on that either, so IPv6 has not done me any favors. But a lot of smaller ISPs and cable companies still have not rolled out IPv6 very well. I do not live in the woods, but do live in flyover country,
Yeah, the current situation where IPv6 is about halfway deployed is really frustrating - you can see how it will solve all these problems, and it’s almost there but you have to wait until the last of your access networks (ISP 1, ISP 2, mobile operator 1, mobile operator 2, etc) gets updated, and as consumers the timeline for that is not in our hands.
I’m in a similar situation where all wireline ISPs in the country have IPv6, but none of the mobile networks.
If they would get it rolled out it would give me an excuse to learn more about it, that is for sure. I am an old network guy…IPv4 FTW! lol
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