I just bought a VPN for security which is installed on my main computer, the same that have the Plex installation.
Now my Plex server isn’t accessible outside of my network anymore.
Is there something I can do in my router?
How to get this working thanks?
Your VPN provider must allow remote port forwarding. Some VPNs do, some don’t.
If yours does, you would set up it’s control panel to port forward a public Plex port back to you, and then set your Plex remote setting “manually specify port”.
@JamminR said:
Your VPN provider must allow remote port forwarding. Some VPNs do, some don’t.
If yours does, you would set up it’s control panel to port forward a public Plex port back to you, and then set your Plex remote setting “manually specify port”.
Thanks for your reply. I had 4 days left to cancel NordVPN, which I just did.
I’m thinking of going with https://hide.me
I’m just wondering if it’s an issue that when I change the vpn server, the ip change.
It can be for remote access, but Plex is usually reasonably quick about noticing, usually in 15-30 minutes.
I did a quick search regarding ‘hide.me’ but was unable to find articles discussing it. NordVPN indeed seems to not allow port forwarding.
Just ensure the next VPN you go with allows for port forwarding. There will usually be a control panel the VPN offers to set this up.
I once found a reddit discusion with a huge list of ‘do’ and ‘do not’ support Plex VPN providers.
Unfortunately, I didn’t bookmark it, and have been unable to find it since.
EDIT - ah ha - I was searching for plex, not for ‘port forwarding’.
hide.me may give you trouble being dynamic
https://www.reddit.com/r/VPNTorrents/comments/3oar5m/list_of_vpns_that_allow_p2p_and_port_forwarding/
(Think of this discussion re-titled ‘plex’ instead of ‘p2p’)
Yeah I contacted hide.me and they answered that
Hello,
our Premium membership supports uPnP (dynamic port-forwarding) and with uPnP it is possible to port-forward up to 10 ports. Most applications that require port forwarding have support for uPnP. If you want to port forward a specific port you can use some uPnP client (like miniupnp). But we cannot guarantee that the port that you want to forward will be available, because some other client may have already asked for port forwarding on the same port. If a static port forwarding is very important to you , I would not recommend our service because we cannot offer you that. Also ports under 10000 are not possible to forward in our network because it is not allowed.
To learn more about port forwarding generally and how it adds up to our service please read this article.
If you would like to know more about uPnP itself, please read our article here.
I hope this helped. Let me know if you need further assistance.
They’ve offered me a 1 day free trial so I can test their service which is pretty great form them. Do you think it’ll work with Plex with the reply they sent me?
Thanks!
@“Gravel Freeman”
Make sure the ‘premium’ isn’t out of your expected monthly or yearly budget.
In theory you can leave Plex server’s automatic uPNP on and it should work.
1 day is a nice offer, however, may not allow for further troubleshooting if it doesn’t work.
Plex forums help can be quick, or painfully slow.
It can’t hurt to try though, now that you have the 1 day offer in writing (I hope).
Good luck.
@JamminR said:
@“Gravel Freeman”
Make sure the ‘premium’ isn’t out of your expected monthly or yearly budget.
In theory you can leave Plex server’s automatic uPNP on and it should work.
1 day is a nice offer, however, may not allow for further troubleshooting if it doesn’t work.
Plex forums help can be quick, or painfully slow.
It can’t hurt to try though, now that you have the 1 day offer in writing (I hope).
Good luck.
So I wouldn’t need a UPNP extra application? Plex itself should do it correctly?
@“Gravel Freeman” said:
So I wouldn’t need a UPNP extra application? Plex itself should do it correctly?
Correct, Plex server itself will always use 32400 internally, but, externally through uPNP, it will attempt to grab what’s available and forward itself back to 32400.
Thanks for your excellent explanation, now the only other issue I can think of would be utorrent on mac.
Out of scope for this forum, but, I’d either research routers that let you run custom firmware, that would then have the ability to connect to a VPN so that all traffic went to vpn from router. (Complicated, but possible)
Or, see if the ‘premium’ account allows for more than one connection at a time. (Simple but not likely)
Or, simple, move utorrent to PMS server. I’m not sure about utorrent’s upnp settings though.
Good luck and have fun learning.
Hey! Thanks a lot for you answer! How could I move utorrent to PMS? Setting 32400 port on utorrent?
Can’t, PMS will want 32400. Research Utorrent dynamic port/Upnp. I meant move as in install the software on the same machine PMS and VPN are running on versus keeping it on Mac.
Honestly though, with VPN, I’d be less worried about Plex server being on VPN than I would BT protocol applications.
