Relayed Connection & Remote Access (?)

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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Is there a connection between my Roku devices which run Plex being ran through LAN but all are on a Relayed Connection and Remote Access?

My remote access is down (which I don’t care about) but I need to figure out why Plex only connects via Relayed Connection.

Didn’t know if Relayed Connection & Remote Access were tied together (???)

Thanks

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  1. make sure your plex server and your clients are in the same network. That is sometimes not as clear-cut as it seems. Sometimes router settings or WiFi Extenders or powerLan bridges will separate one part of your home network from each other.
    Do you have more than one router device? Or WiFi extenders or powerLan adapters?

  2. a second cause is often your router. More precisely: how it handles DNS lookups.
    See if its configuration menu has a setting called ‘DNS rebinding protection’. You need to define an exemption from this protection for the domain plex.direct
    PMS using wrong IP

If you never want to activate remote access again, you can try to disable ‘Secure Connections’. This will avoid the trouble with DNS.
Settings - Server - Network

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I have a TP-Link Deco M5 mesh router system.

—Do you think most likey this is the issue?

The reason I question this is all of my Roku devices are on on a wired LAN .
And again, just to clarify, I just want to get rid of the Relayed Connection.

Thank you for the response(s)!!!

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I think so. Other users with Mesh routers are reporting similar experiences.
Personally, I don’t know this device, so cannot say if there might be a setting in the router which could help.

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I actually changed the LAN Networks settings to all of the IP address I have on my local network and this magically worked. If this is not a good idea, please let me know.

Thanks for your help!

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That should be alright.
You do know you can use network addresses there?
e.g. 192.168.2.0/24 will indicate the whole class C network from 192.168.2.1 to 192.168.2.255.

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So, after 3 weeks or so of not dealing with the relayed connection, its now back. My Plex server is up and running and settings have not been changed. Router is same too…any ideas?

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I finally found a fix for my Plex/Deco M5. In the app I configured the port forwarding. I went to “Antivirus”. I turned off “Intrusion Prevention System.” Now it works.

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