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How to watch my plex media when work wifi just blocked plex?

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?

baronvonj ,
@baronvonj@lemmy.world avatar

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.

deranger ,

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.

yuuunikki OP ,

So I have Windscribe as my VPN, what do I do exactly?

besmtt ,

That’s not “Windscribe as my VPN”, it’s a VPN to Windscribe’s servers.

You want to setup a VPN to your home network. This is one option: tailscale.com

yuuunikki OP ,

ooo, this looks very nice. I shall try setting this up, thanks

TheBigBrother ,

This is the answer.

RootBeerGuy ,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

This is the answer…

… to get him fired.

RegalPotoo ,
@RegalPotoo@lemmy.world avatar

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

Crashumbc ,

Using a VPN on wifi shouldn’t trip anything.

IsThisAnAI ,

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

Step outside, touch grass and use the cell signal.

yuuunikki OP ,

Get a better catchphrase, “touch grass” is so overused now it’s embarrassing.

IsThisAnAI ,

Get fucked. Better?

Moghul ,

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.

jeffreyosborne ,

Use a vpn. Cloudflare warp isn’t officially a vpn iirc, but it does unblock any site.

viking ,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

If they block plex, they probably block private vpns as well (or if they don’t you’d most likely be violating some policy). So other than politely asking your IT admin to unblock it, there’s exactly nothing you can do.

Shadow ,
@Shadow@lemmy.ca avatar

Try setting up tailscale

parmesancrabs ,

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?

AernaLingus ,

If you’re watching consecutive episodes of a series you can always just download them to your phone before you head to work. Not really viable if you hop around a lot, though.

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