Hey. I am renting an apartment from someone that lets me use their xfinity internet. Their setup uses the xfinity modem/router connected to a netgear wireless router, that then I connect my mac laptop to. I cannot connect to my Plex Media Server on my TV on the same network. MY phone also can't connect to my mac using the wifi using a mac app called reflector. So something is blocking me.
From what I have read, I am probably experiencing a double NAT issue. When I take the troubleshooting test, I show the double NAT symptoms. I am able to login to the xfinity router page and see in the troubleshooting instructions that forwarding a port might be a viable option for me. I want to change things as minimally as possible as its not my setup. The instructions say to use port 32400 and my netgear routers IP address... How do I find that? Then what setting do I have to change within plex media servers settings?
should I check the "Manually specify public port" box and use 32400 within the server ----> remote access area? Or does this section even matter since my problem is across my local network?
Under server ------> network should "Enable server support for IPv6" be checked?
Any suggestions or related experience would be awesome. I wish there was something I could turn off to allow all of my devices to easily communicate with each other but I guess port forwarding for each issue is my next best choice. I can't figure out what xfinity's port forwarding setup want as the IP address. I think it should be the netgear router's IP but I have no idea what that is!