as of today I noticed I can’t access my plex server at all when on my work’s wifi. But if i swtich to 4g i can watch plex just fine. But obviously mobile data isn’t truly unlimited high speed. And yes I only watch shit on my break. I have remote access enabled etc. Not sure what I can do?

Update: turns out I’m an idiot and my HD bay was turned off hence why I couldn’t get into my plex/media. Now I can view it all just fine at work.

  • Baron Von J@lemmy.world
    80·
    5 months ago

    Download some stuff to your phone/tablet for “offline” viewing. Your work has decided to restrict you from doing non-work stuff on their network and that’s their right.

  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    46·
    5 months ago

    Do that shit on your phone. I never understand how many people openly fuck around on company networks. 90% chance they’re logging everything you’re doing.

  • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world
    39·
    5 months ago

    You don’t. Jesus Christ. It’s their network.

    Step outside, touch grass and use the cell signal.

  • Moghul@lemmy.world
    36·
    5 months ago

    Don’t, unless you don’t mind losing your job. They did it because they noticed people were watching stuff at work and they don’t want you to do it.

    • Victor@lemmy.world
      5·
      5 months ago

      We don’t know their situation. Might be fine, and they just blocked most ports rather than specifically Plex’s. OP also said they only watch stuff on their break.

      • Moghul@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 months ago

        Fair enough, that could be the case. Some generic blocking setting. In that case others in this thread have given good technical suggestions.

  • deranger@sh.itjust.works
    23·
    5 months ago

    VPN to LAN, great for remote access of other things on your home LAN as well. Once connected it will be as if your phone was on your home WiFi.

    • RegalPotoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      5 months ago

      Don’t do this. This is going to trip alarms on any half decent IDS, and your net admins are busy enough without having to write up a report to go to the HR people deciding if they are going to fire you for breaking the computer use policy

        • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
          5·
          5 months ago

          Whose WiFi? The companies WiFi? Why would that be any different to the wired network?

          • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            5 months ago

            If you’re letting random mobile devices on the internal network, you’ve already failed security 101.

            • lud@lemm.ee
              1·
              5 months ago

              Obviously random personal phones shouldn’t have access to stuff like file servers, domain controllers, or even normal endpoints. But it’s perfectly fine and normal to host a guest network that only gives internet access and nothing else.

              • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                5 months ago

                Exactly! And you shouldn’t care if someone fires up a VPN on a guest network! I would expect them to actually.

  • sunbeam60@lemmy.one
    10·
    5 months ago

    VPN to your home network (wg-easy is the easiest way to set this up) or change the public port of your server to something the work network will allow.

  • Ptsf@lemmy.world
    7·
    5 months ago

    Since people here are critiquing you instead of actually assisting, I’d have you take a look at tailscale. You can use it to easily create a resistant vpn between your home and your work network, allowing the traffic to bypass filtering.

  • parmesancrabs@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    They might not be blocking plex, but blocking most ports that aren’t relevant to “normal” internet usage. E.g. just have ports 443, 80 and 8080 allowed.

    You might have to steer a VPN through those ports too?

    • InputZero@lemmy.ml
      9·
      5 months ago

      This is the best idea. Just talk to them, best case they’ll help you with it, worst case is they’ll give you a talking to. Going around IT’s back is a very good way to get fired really quickly.

  • Sarsoar
    3·
    5 months ago

    I have an oracle free tier vps that I run reverse proxy on and have certs for subdomains for a domain I got on cloudflare. Cloudflare dns points to the vps, apache server proxy on port 80/443. On the vps I also have tailscale and another tailscale on a server at home advertising routes.

    So I have music.mydomain for subsonic and plex.mydomain and files.mydomain for nextcloud, etc.

    Its normal https web traffic so weird ports dont need to be accessed or remembered.

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
    2·
    5 months ago

    I simply changed my public port to 443 in Plex and made a port forward on my home router. 443 -> internal_ip:32400

      • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
        2·
        5 months ago

        On your Plex server, you change the public port here

        On your home router, you reserve the IP address (aka DHCP reservation) assigned to the machine hosting the Plex server (or you assign a static IP address to it) in my case it’s 192.168.1.90, then you make a port forward so that port 443 on your public address is forwarded to your internal_ip port 32400.

        Now the home router part is specific to your router brand and model, so you’ll have to do some research on your end.

        • yuuunikki@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
          2·
          5 months ago

          I have spectrum so I have the default modem/router they provide which for my use case is just fine. In the spectrum app I can assign port forwards.