![]() ![]() Ideally for us, a media server would allow us to choose the network we would like to display the materials on and in a format that is easy to navigate. Our library of movies and programs has several hundred files (many of which are hard to find), plus subtitles when needed. I'm still learning and searching, so any thoughts on this subject are very welcome. You have to be very careful though anything now connected to either router will get DHCP addresses from the main router any bypass the vpn router. So now in effect your media server is on 2 networks. The very non standard part is you now put a secondary IP address on your media server that is in the subnet of the vpn router. Then you connect a cable between the lan ports of the router. You need to also use a different IP subnet behind both routers. So you might consider using just the asus router.Ī rather Nasty hack would be to use only static IP addresses on the VPN router and devices on that network.ie disable dhcp. You can for example rig it so only netflix but not hbo goes via the tunnel. In addition if you load the merlin firmware it has a very advanced for of the split tunnel. It can depending on how high you turn up the encryption run 200mbps over vpn. That asus router is very special it is one of the very few that has a hardware vpn accelerator. Well you are somewhat in luck but it depends how fast your internet is. Plex Media Server appears to be able to resolve the latter, but the question is how to resolve the former. Is this the material you are speaking of when you say "online"? In addition to being able to share your own library (in a very organized Netflix-like format), you can also view programming (movies, tv shows, etc) that Plex offers. In our case, it would be a shared library for every device that has the Plex App (TV, phone & tablet). Hi punkncat & thank you for your thoughts on the subject,Īs I understand it, one of the cool things about Plex Server is that you can store your own library of videos and have it available to all devices that share the same network as the Plex Server. Be aware if you have a fast internet connection you might be better off using a small pc to act as your single router. You could hook everything to the single router and you would not have the sharing issues and only the devices that need vpn could use it. I know asus routers that can run the merlin firmware can do this but I suspect there are many others. It allows you to control which traffic goes into the vpn tunnel and which traffic is allowed to bypass it and go directly. The feature you are looking for is sometimes called split tunnel. What I would do is get a better vpn router. So even if this worked you traffic would go all the way out to the internet vpn provider and back. You have the added issue that you are running VPN on the router itself.Įven if you tried to talk to devices on the first router the VPN router would force the traffic to go into the VPN tunnel and be send outside your "modem". ![]() This is the standard port forwarding problem, and if you really work at it you can to some extent share files. The first issue is that you have 2 routers and they all share the WAN IP on their respective routers. A real modem tend to only allow a single device to connect to it. I suspect the device you call a modem is actually a router. This is like asking how do you share files with your neighbor. ![]()
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