Just got my Plex pass thanks to this sub (lifetime!) any tips I should know?

I use it myself alone but, if I wanted to make it accesible for a friend or family member, should I be worried about any particular settings for transcoding and such? Thanks

Add your local LAN Player Devices IPs to the „doesn’t need authorization“ list, so your plex still works if you have no Internet.

Open port 32400 on your router to make it accessible outside your network

I used to have a single page jpg to share around to get your friends to turn on direct streaming but a copyright troll got the Reddit post taken down

essentially, if you have symmetrical fiber and no data caps, it’s a good idea to let users outside your network direct stream rather than transcode to free up your server to transcode when it actually needs to

Do have a read here - https://trash-guides.info/

What OS and what kind of CPU do you have? (or GPU)

The what? My internet randomly goes out and I could never figure it why I couldn’t stream to me devices since the network was still up

Is this needed if the server is running through a VPN?

I can’t open ports because my ISP won’t allow it but I’ve tested it and I can access my library from outside the network without doing it.

I don’t have symmetrical just yet but my up speed is 20mb, I’ll try what you suggested and see how it goes, thanks

Can you dm the image?

I’m running Windows 10 ltsc and I have a ryzen 5 3600

You can find the Setting under Server > Network > List of IP Adresses that are allowed without auth

Here is a Tutorial with pictures

I run plex through VPN and I haven’t opened the port. Plex says it can’t connect but I can remotely access it

Most of the time, yes. Manual port eliminates any possible issues for external access already. But with VPN, you can list Plex as an exception in your VPN app, like expressvpn.

Probably because UPnP is enabled. You want to turn that off immediately

If you want share remotely I suggest you not do so with 4k HDR content. Ryzen does not have the kind of support that Intel CPU’s have when it comes to hardware transcoding

If you want to improve your transcoding performance your cheapest upgrade will be to get a Nvidia GPU off this list or something like an ARC a310 for $99

Plex Media Server Hardware Transcoding Cheat Sheet

Hey thanks for the tip, I’ve read that post but I’m really not that good with network stuff, isn’t kinda dangerous to use a netmask?

You are a gentleman and a scholar. Thank you

Wow do you really have to write the netmask like that? For example mine would be:
192.168.5.0/255.255.255.0

But as a network guy I would normally write that as 192.168.5.0/24.

I guess I’ll put it in like the article.