What kinds of connections are defined/can be made?

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Hi,
What different kinds of connections can plex set up, and what do they mean? So far I’ve seen “Nearby”, “Remote” and “Indirect”. Even if I use a browser locally on my plex machine and browse to “localhost:32400” I get a “Nearby” connection - is this correct? Shouldn’t there be a “Local” connection? How can I tell if plex is connected directly (and verify that it isn’t transcoding stuff when it shouldn’t need to)?

Thanks for a great product so far!

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I have the same problem. I try to connect to my library in my own network and it says that it is an indirect connection, which means that the video goes to the Plex server and then back to my unit.
If someone knows how to fix this please tell us.

Thanks

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set ‘Secure Connections’ back to ‘preferred’
(Settings - Server - Network)

Allow Plex Web to fallback to unsecure when ‘in same network as Server’
(Settings - Web - General)

Also, try the following if you want Secure Connections work in the local network anyway:

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OttoKerner, thanks for your reply. I do not have any problems getting connected, I just want to understand the different connections plex uses. If I get a “nearby” connection does that mean the client is on the same network and accessing the server locally? Nearby still sounds a little vague, I would have expected “Local” or something like that. Getting “remote” when accessing via 3G/4G on my phone is totally reasonable, and I understand “indirect” is a fallback through a proxy or the like.

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@niksod said:
OttoKerner, thanks for your reply. I do not have any problems getting connected, I just want to understand the different connections plex uses. If I get a “nearby” connection does that mean the client is on the same network and accessing the server locally? Nearby still sounds a little vague, I would have expected “Local” or something like that. Getting “remote” when accessing via 3G/4G on my phone is totally reasonable, and I understand “indirect” is a fallback through a proxy or the like.

It’s in the FAQ.
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/205671088-Navigation-Menu

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Actually it’s not in the FAQ. There’s nothing there that says what an ‘indirect’ connection is.

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‘Indirect’ indicates a connection per Relay service.

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Thanks, but why is it not connecting directly? I’m not away from home. I’m on my computer which is running the server!

Shawn Skalinski
sskalinski@icloud.com

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@skazzyskills said:
Thanks, but why is it not connecting directly? I’m not away from home. I’m on my computer which is running the server!

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