Hey guys,
I have a problem and I don’t get it. I’m launching Plex Version 1.5.0.951-eb39ca04 on my QNAP NAS TS-231P. My Amazon Fire TV Sticks are connected to the same LAN (via ethernet and WiFi) but nevertheless the APP is saying that I have just an indirect connection. The performance is horrible and I can’t get the cause. Does someone have the same problem and maybe a solution?
Thanks in advance!
BR
Adrian
Thank you for your answer!
My router is a FritzBox 6490 Cable branded by Unitymedia Germany(My ISP).
The Server and the Clients are in the same Subnet.
If the clients are wireless, you might check your router’s wireless settings for an option called “client isolation mode”. This pretty much tells the router “don’t let devices talk to one another, they only get to go online to the Internet”. The problem is there really isn’t a good reason for this setting to be ON for a home router. Its main use would be public networks to prevent an attacker from hacking other devices connected to the network.
Other than that this I’m not going to be too much help. When the devices are all on the local network, port forwarding and Internet connection should not make a difference as the communication is occurring all on the same side of the firewall. If you click the “Networking” tag you added to your topic here you’ll see there have been a couple other posts recently on this topic and quite often routers supplied by ISPs come into play.
This was exactly the problem I had. It goes by many other names as well,
Yes, “Disable Intra-BSSID Traffic” one of the more not-helpful names I’ve seen it by.
My UniFi calls it “guest policy” or captive portal.
That’s confusing. Normally the term “captive portal” when referring to guests on a wireless network refers to an actual portal page you have to authenticate against to get traffic to route to you, Like when you go to a grocery store with wi-fi and you have to hit “I agree” on a T&C page before you can actually get access, even though you are already connected to the wireless and there is no password on it. On a home router these pages ask for a password and only allow access for a limited time or reduced speed. They are made to be easier to manage than a normal secured network.
Getting back on topic, I don’t know what the deal is with these local Plex issues with telco routers. It’s almost like they are gimped to only allow certain activities to work on them like external internet access works, network printing, and maybe LAN file sharing. But things like in-home LAN gaming and media servers and stuff don’t.
I thank you all for your support. Now I have the problem. It’s a little dumb:
A few weeks ago I changed my DHCP-scoupe on the router, and due to a typo, my new subnet was 192.16.81.0/24 instead of 192.168.1.0/24. So the media server doesn’t check if the IP comes from the same subnet, only if it’s a public or private IP. Because 192.16.81.0/24 is a public subnet, it has connected via plex.tv.
I changed the scope, and voilà, it works!
Thanks for the follow-up!
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