As was stated on the first post you made about this, it’s a dns or nat reflection issue.

Plex sees you accessing it through your external IP address, and not through your lan IP.

I had a similar problem, and had to roll back some nat changes I made, and now it’s working fine again.

Meanwhile, free remote streaming works fine if you have a proper VPN setup. I just tested it, and was able to stream to my phone, through the Plex app, over my tailscale VPN, and I do not have Plex pass on the server or on my phone…

Real world usage tells me all I need to know.

SMB isn’t really all that slow these days.

I have NFS and SMB shares set up (same directory) and copying files to/from them maxes out my gigabit LAN.

SSH on the other hand is slower, because there’s more CPU overhead.

You can get wifi pretty cheap. A $40 router will get you wifi. You’ll also need an internet connection, however…

Did you even read the link? You don’t need it on every device. It’s not really that difficult to understand.

I AM A 48 YEAR OLD FORMER FUCKING TRUCK DRIVER FOR FUCKS SAKE, and yet, I still managed to set up tailscale on my phone and a computer, and then access my stuff that ISNT running tailscale in any way, shape or form, from my phone, simply because I decided to figure it the fuck out.

Stop being so damned lazy.

I am so fucking tired of this “cater to the lowest common denominator” bullshit.

For #3, subnet routing.

https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets

I’m the only one in my family who accesses it on the web player, and the other ways still work fine.

I’m not breaking something for the other two users in my household because of my own convenience.

Access via IP address and not the name. I’ve been having to do it that way for several days now, too.

There’s also the slightly-less-hidden cost.

Electricity to run your home server(s).

There’s a theory that we already are. That our entire observable universe is, actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_cosmology

Mm, spaghetti…