Plexconnect over WAN - Something has slowed down

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Hopefully someone can help me out here. I had this working great. I had Plexconnect working at my moms house over the WAN back to my house and everything was pretty snappy. 

 

She's been out of town for a month and I went over there to help her out and all of a sudden everything is slow. It takes a good 20-30 seconds for just the list of movies to display, sometimes longer. 

 

I figured the problem was that she had an older version of PlexConnect on her machine. Before I updated I figured I would try out Plexify, which is really just a front end and easier setup for PlexConnect (as I understand it), and that didn't help. 

 

Everything works great and fast from a browser or IOS device from my moms house to my installation.

 

While I have Plexify running I figured I would just troubleshoot with it rather than the manual install I did. 

 

Here is my Settings, this is running on an ATV 6.02. Plexify is the 1.1 RC

 

port_pms = 32400
port_webserver = 80
ip_plexconnect = 192.168.1.98
certfile = ./assets/certificates/trailers.pem
ip_dnsmaster = 192.168.1.1
loglevel = Normal
enable_dnsserver = True
logpath = .
ip_pms =
enable_plexgdm = True
port_ssl = 443
enable_webserver_ssl = True
prevent_atv_update = True
port_dnsserver = 53

 

I've tried this both with enable_plexgdm TRUE and also with False specifying the public IP address of my Plex server. I've mapped port 32400 through my router into the correct server.

 

Any thoughts? I was telling my wife that I'm sure it's something incredibly simple that I'm just missing but I'm missing it. 

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Why are you using the WAN IP rather than singing her into MyPlex?

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Sorry, I thought I posted above that I tried it both ways. using MyPlex and without. With using MyPlex the connection is slowed down as well. 

I tried to do a direct connection to the server to see if it sped it up. It didn't. 

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Any ideas? Other than re-setting everything up from scratch and trying again not sure where to begin.

Thanks

5

I would try setting PlexConnect up again from scratch.

Save the certs and reuse them but keep everything else stock ie do not edit settings.cfg

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Well, I'm not sure what happened but a full reinstall fixed the problems. 

When i say a full reinstall I did it the "easy" way. I downloaded the files from Github, moved them into the Applications folder, copied over the certificates and started it. 

Not sure why I ever used Plexify (nothing against Plexify) but this just seems easier to get it from Github. 

Maybe it's just me.

Anyways, thanks for the help.