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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Exactly my point. There’s some due hard people here saying that remote streaming is only possible because of plex’s servers, but that’s just not true. They act as fancy DNS or proxying, they lust point to your local server. That’s all. Regular DNS or even an IP and port are all it takes to get remote streaming up

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dave@lemmy.wtf ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
it might not cost plex much but from the average joe’s point of view they might not want to mess around with this stuff, or might have never even heard of DNS or proxies in the first place so those types of people might be more inclined to pay for a feature that does all that for them. thats what plex could be hedging their bets on

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valkyre09@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There are two types connection in this scenario

Direct - no additional cost to Plex, using the port forwarding instructions you mentioned. No limit on bandwidth - the best (and most common) option

Relay - for whatever reason your client cannot reach the server (CGNAT / port forwarding not possible / firewall on client side etc), Plex will act like a man in the middle & limit the connection to 2mbit. (Yup, megaBIT).

I switched away from Plex last year because they wouldn’t let me connect with my box in Hetzner. I’m now using Emby, ironically I’m also paying for Emby’s monthly subscription. Not because I believe I need to, but because I want the developer to continue to work on it.
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- lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You do know what caused the Hetzner thing?
  
  People were literally farming Plex in there. They bought a 2-4TB server in the auction and installed Plex and a content farm setup to feed it fresh content.
  
  Then they sold access to the server until it was at capacity. GOTO 10
  
  At one point Hetzner went “fuck this” and just banned Plex altogether. We can’t have nice things because some people are dipshits professionally.
  
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  - valkyre09@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It was Plex that did the IP range ban because people were selling access to their boxes.
    
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- FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Not because I believe I need to, but because I want the developer to continue to work on it.
  
  Strange how so many people don’t have this same attitude towards the developers of Plex.
  
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  - Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s just that they see Plex more like a faceless corporation now
    
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