Plex is now completely f*****g useless. It is only moderately useful when my media is in the same room with the TV or streaming device in question. I can no longer stream from a bedroom on the second floor at the the one end of my house to the Roku in my living room on the first floor at the other end without the f*****g “Plex Pass” extortion. My home network was cobbled together and has about 4 SSID names, ensuring my 2 home based servers are on 5 different networks and you ■■■■■■■ are trying to rip me off.
■■■■ Plex! Feel free to cancel my account. I can’t use it anyway
FYI you should be able to stream your media locally without a plex pass.
It does sound like your network is the issue. For some reason plex thinks your client is remote to your server. Try starting with making sure that the roku and server are on the same network.
I was going to ask if they had entered the other network address ranges into the server settings for what should be considered local, but I imagine the issues are more complicated than that. Bro has a huge house but apparently can’t afford to get a mesh system.
If using a 192.168.x.x network for the server
with multiple SSIDs at:
192.168.0.x
192.168.1.x
192.168.2.x
192.168.3.x
The answer is simple:
Widen the subnet of the server machine to span all four blocks of /24
– This means to change the netmask of the server machine (ONLY) from its default of /24 to /22.
– This slides two bits from the network definition to the host side.
– All hosts/players will now be on the same subnet
Restart the server machine
All other players will remain configured as /24 as defined by the AP.
If more are needed, continue to widen the subnet of the server(s) until it encompasses all players.
Remember, RFC-1918 defines 192.168.x.x. as a /16 network space. Carve it up as needed
@FlameStrike There’s likely a relatively simple solution, if you’re interested at all in troubleshooting. It was actually alluded to above by @nx6: The first step is to ensure all of your local networks (at least the ones from which you access your Plex server) are referenced in: Settings -> [Select Server Name] -> Network (Show Advanced) -> LAN Networks
This tells Plex Media Server which networks it should treat as local (they should all be in the RFC-1918 address space). Here’s screenshot of the setting from one of my own servers:
He’s asking about the IP addessing you have on your networks, is it 192.168.???.xxx or 10.x.x.x. Different routers have different ways of doing the addressing on the network by default. One way to simplify your network is to set some of your routers in “bridge” or “AP Mode” so they only work as wireless network broadcasts and they do not assign IP addresses. That can be left to a single router, the one you have connected to your internet provider’s equipment (or is that equipment, if you got a wireless router from your provider).
When the Internet was installed, it would not reach the other side of the house. I got a wifi extender, which would not pick up the signa;. so I got a new router to set up a better signal that the extended could pick up. Eventually I ended up with 2 extenders and a router in addition to the original wi-fi signal. Then I got a wi-fi device that was supposed to unify the signals, which nothing will connect to. That is how I wound up with this disaster of a network.
Now, mind telling me how to identify whatever these subnets are so I can fix this?
Incidentally, I have one Windows server and one on Linux.
You’ll need to review the configuration of each repeater. They frequently create their own network. Usually, there’s an option to disable that, either by switching them into some kind of „bridge mode“ or by disabling their DHCP (forcing them to only extend the main network instead of creating new ones).
I’m sorry, what part of “I have no freaking clue about networks and how to fix them” is unclear to you? I have no idea how to adjust the extenders or alter their setting, much less find the subnets!
Can you provide the manufacturers & models of the equipment you have? Then the folks that do know networking can review the capabilities of that equipment and come up with a plan to assist you.
So, it just seems you want a network that gives internet access to all devices across the house. Nothing fancy like subnets for traffic control or grouping.
What all brands/models of the devices do you have?
Are you able to access the configuration pages for each of the devices?
If you can access the configuration pages, please provide screen shots that show the IP addresses of each device, DHCP configurations, and whether they are APs (wired backhaul) or extenders (Wi-Fi). All of that information should be easy to find in settings to check whether they are set correctly.
I think this should be a fairly easy fix since you’re not looking to do anything particularly fancy.
