My brother and I have had a Plex server for a few years now and I never ran into this problem. I can only connect to his server indirectly, and the same for him. He can only connect indirectly to my server. We are both stuck using relay only. Remote access is fully accessible on both ends. What I d…

Sounds to me like something on your brother’s network is preventing the connection either in or out. I would start looking there.

Are you two relatively close to each other and share the same ISP?

we are in the same city and we do use Spectrum if that’s what your asking.

My brothers server is fully accessible from outside his network. And so is mine. And we both have friends and family using our servers. They do not have a problem playing directly without relay. The problem lies between my brother and I. The only two people that have a server setup. I can only conn…

[image] dueltothedeath: we are in the same city and we do use Spectrum See Suddenly Remote access isn't working - Outside network appears and then fails - #5 by OttoKerner for some ideas.

Umm… but remote access is fully working. Outside network doesn’t appear then fail. So those suggestions wouldn’t pertain to me. Thanks for trying to help though. I guess I’m going to have to live with connecting to my brothers server thru relay.

They would still pertain to you. Just try them.

Anyone on my server can connect and play media without any problem except for my brother. And for my brother, anyone can connect and play media on his server without a hitch, except for me. When I look my brothers server on my laptop, I see a Earth symbol over his username. It’s grayed out. If I rem…

Sometimes you can’t communicate directly between adjacent modems on the same ISP network. Can he visit your https://public.ip.addr.ess:port/web/ in a web browser? Can you visit his? For this test only, getting a certificate error would be a good sign; it would indicate that basic direct connectivi…

Is the gray Earth symbol the certificate error you speak of?

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