My home subnet is 192.168.1.X.
At a friends house who’s LAN subnet is also 192.168.1.X.
I am unable to connect to my home Plex server from the remote location with the same network subnet.
The local subnet should not matter - have you tried with different plex clients?
It does try local subnet first - for your server. The plex client app would ask plex.tv for details of your server - via interface https://plex.tv/pms/resources.xml?X-Plex-Token=xxxxxxxxxxx and from the returned XML it would get the complete set of routes to your server.
Logs from the app you are using may help
Thanks,
Turns out it is/was my ISP. My friend and I have the same ISP and are in the same neighborhood. I brought this up to a contact at the local ISP and from what I was told it sounds like they firewall their customers from each other.
They claim it is a security measure to prevent their WAN from acting like a LAN.
@windowsjb said:
Thanks,Turns out it is/was my ISP. My friend and I have the same ISP and are in the same neighborhood. I brought this up to a contact at the local ISP and from what I was told it sounds like they firewall their customers from each other.
They claim it is a security measure to prevent their WAN from acting like a LAN.
You both have different public IP addresses. Open a browser window and go to www.whatsmyip.org. Have your friend do the same. Your IP addresses won’t be 192.168.x.
Of course you can’t access anyone else’s private LAN. That would be insanity.
