Hey everyone!
I am extremely new to Plex and pretty inexperienced with networking related tech, though I am getting around! However, I've run into a problem and after trying to fix it for half a day, I decided to ask here.
I want to use Plex from outside my home, however, I am getting the "Double Nat" problem that many have posted about already. Since even with those threads I still couldn't figure it out, here is my situation:
I have a modem from my ISP and a Netgear R7000 router. I am using the Netgear because the ISP's modem doesn't have sufficient coverage in my home and it's also quite slow. I've read that one of the options to solve the double NAT issue is putting my ISP's modem in bridge mode. The reason I can't/don't want to do that is because there is a wired set-top box connected to it and connecting it directly to my router is nigh impossible. According to my ISP, putting the modem in bridge mode will disable all LAN ports accept for the one that connects to my router, which I assume is normal.
The next solution I came across which seemed viable is manually forwarding a port from my modem to my router, and then forwarding that same port to the media server (this is the thread I am referring to: https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/244207/how-do-i-enable-remote-access-on-a-double-nat-network). However, I cannot get it to work. Is this something that could solve my problem? And if yes, what do I fill in where?
ISP modem settings
Netgear R7000 settings
Plex Media Server settings
If this won't work, is there any other solution?
Thanks in advance for your help! 