There seems to be something wrong with my plex then. If everyone keeps saying it wont use data on a local machine. I have been playing videos off my plex on my ps4 locally by the ip address and it is using up my parents data. I just got a notice I have pushed there usage up to 75% even though I have only been watching locally. As a test i disconnected the internet from the router and plex will no longer work. For some reason its sending it out and back to my local machine. Am I missing something?
Disable âsecure connectionsâ under Settings - Server - Network, then restart Plex Server and a few minutes later your Plex clients
You must make absolutely sure that your client device is on the same local subnet as your server. Some wireless routers do put all wireless devices into a different subnet. Verify the settings.
If you use several router devices âcascadedâ, a part of your home network may also end up in a different subnet. You must have only one ârouterâ, all other wireless âroutersâ i your network must be put into âAccess Pointâ mode (disable NAT).
So the secure connection is causing it to go out of my local network and back in? why is that?
@dongfanglong said:
So the secure connection is causing it to go out of my local network and back in? why is that?
Not directly.
To use a Secure Connection, Plex needs to access your server with its FQDN, because the TLS certificate is âpinnedâ to that.
The certificate is not valid for the private IP address and thus, the connection would fail.
But your router must allow the FQDN to get assigned to your server. Some donât allow this. Some can be persuaded with a special configuration, some cannot.
Hence the first test is to disable Secure Connections.
Now you can try and make this special configuration work in your router.
Here is how https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/206225077-How-to-Use-Secure-Server-Connections (scroll down to âDNS Rebindingâ)
well its all on the same subnet. I turned off the setting and tested it again and it worked without internet. However i had to restart the video because it said it couldnt find the file. Is there some way to show if its sending traffic out?
@dongfanglong said:
Is there some way to show if its sending traffic out?
You would need to peruse your routerâs user interface for info about that.
Or maybe your ISP provides a statistic which you can watch before and after playing a video.
I have the same problem. I use it only locally but many times I found Plex using my UPLOAD bandwidth almost saturating all my available bandwidth. How is this? I understand some download is required for metadata (though this should be limited to the newly added media when you update database)âŠ
But why all this bandwidth usage in upload. I am not talking about few pings or tech data⊠I am talking about hundreds of Mb per day!!!
Can somebody explain?
@mmazzilli73 said:
I have the same problem. I use it only locally but many times I found Plex using my UPLOAD bandwidth almost saturating all my available bandwidth.
It has been explained above already.
Here is a shortened version: https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1448011/#Comment_1448011
I use PLEX exclusively at home to stream movies/series from my NAS to my Apple TV or Shield. Sometimes my PS3.
I have found that some times a movie just throws me the loading symbol midway through the movie and then just hangs. When I exit the movie and try to go back in (or play anything else) it tells me it canât find the server. My Apple TV canât find the NAS that is on the same wifi. I try restarting the Apple TV and the NAS and nope, no joy⊠Then I discover my data cap is reached, I buy more data and voila⊠suddenly PLEX is showing my movie again, right where I left off.
The question of âDoes PLEX use your internetâ is not even a question any more. The only question now is âHow much data is PLEX using?â
I have 50Gb capped product but with free downloads during midnight and 6AM. I schedule my downloads for then and during the remaining 18 hours I use my internet exclusively for web surfing and emailing. I donât even watch youTube because I want to preserve as much data as I can for the roll over in case I DO need to download something some time. That is how I use my internet⊠Simply put: I donât. I download torrents when my data is free and during the rest of the day I just email and surfâŠ
For relaxation the wife and I watch movies via Plex. Either in the bedroom with the aircon or the living room with the nice cold evening air coming from the open door. Hence either the Apple TV or the Shield. This month my 50Gb cap was reached by the 20th. Acccording to them I consistently upoaded between 30Mb and 90mb every single hour and downloaded between 550 and 950Mb very hour.
Considering the fact that I went to the livingroom to watch a movie, came back and found I had just used another 700MB of data I was understandably upset! the movie was about double that size so clearly the movie didnât stream over the internet but I still managed to eat up half the movie size by watching a movie through the Shield which is connected to the router via ethernet. The NAS is connected to the router via the ethernet also. So from ethernet NAS to ethernet Shield to HDMI TV I use up 50% of the movieâs data in bandwidth AND upload 30to 60Mb also. WTF!?
Clearly this conversation is super old so why isnât this resolved yet? Why canât we just have a simple âlocal onlyâ media player? how about a âFetch meta info nowâ button and the rest of the time just NOT fetch the data?
Why force my movie to stop playing mid way through just because my internet cap was reached? Iâm streaming from the NAS 2 rooms away⊠not the bloody Ukraine! Why do I need internet to stream data from 2 rooms away? Why? Why canât I just play the bloody movie without requiring the internet!? itâs already a pain in the ass to have to first log in via the internet before I can stream my local content but why the heck canât you just stream without all the extras that eat up my internet data?
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