Upgrading to TP-Link DECO Mesh system destroyed my Plex server
Hello!
I used to have a dinky little router that didn't cover my home well, but chugged along in some way to keep the relative peace. It streamed plex media to all the devices in my home reasonably well, and short of 4k I could stream pretty much whatever to my major appliances and screens without much fuss.
However, ever since I got the TP-Link Deco XE75 Wifi 6E mesh system, Plex has stuttered and struggled to communicate to other devices to the network. I set up NAT forwarding, but this seemed to make little difference; if it can't stream on the local network, how could it do it remotely?
I've tried all manner of things: disabled QoS; set a static IP for the server device (a desktop PC); reset and restart the router and PC, respectively; but nothing seems to work. I don't know where to look or what to do!
Please help.
Edit: Resolved! See my last post in this thread, but a HomeBridge VM setup in windows was stealing the IPv4 network interface.