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?

Update: turns out I'm an idiot and my HD bay was turned off hence why I couldn't get into my plex/media. Now I can view it all just fine at work.

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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.
- I think this is only allowed with plexpass but I'm not positive.
  
  i should mention i have lifetime plexpass
  
  Correct
Do that shit on your phone. I never understand how many people openly fuck around on company networks. 90% chance they're logging everything you're doing.
You don't. Jesus Christ. It's their network.

Step outside, touch grass and use the cell signal.
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.
- We don't know their situation. Might be fine, and they just blocked most ports rather than specifically Plex's. OP also said they only watch stuff on their break.
  
  Fair enough, that could be the case. Some generic blocking setting. In that case others in this thread have given good technical suggestions.
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.
- 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
  
  Using a VPN on wifi shouldn't trip anything.
- So I have Windscribe as my VPN, what do I do exactly?
  
  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: https://tailscale.com/
VPN to your home network (wg-easy is the easiest way to set this up) or change the public port of your server to something the work network will allow.
Use a vpn. Cloudflare warp isn't officially a vpn iirc, but it does unblock any site.
Since people here are critiquing you instead of actually assisting, I'd have you take a look at tailscale. You can use it to easily create a resistant vpn between your home and your work network, allowing the traffic to bypass filtering.
- I'm not surprised that this site has its share of nosy neckbeards. I shall look into tailscale this weekend
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?
Ask the IT guy about it.
- This is the best idea. Just talk to them, best case they'll help you with it, worst case is they'll give you a talking to. Going around IT's back is a very good way to get fired really quickly.
  
  Bribe them with snacks. Source: Am IT. Have been bribed with snacks. You can bet that user got priority treatment from that day on.
Try setting up tailscale
How about you do your work instead?
- This doesn't answer my question , next!
  
  Well, I do truly hope you get caught in the act.
- How about you mind your own fucking business? Maybe they watch something on their break?
I have an oracle free tier vps that I run reverse proxy on and have certs for subdomains for a domain I got on cloudflare. Cloudflare dns points to the vps, apache server proxy on port 80/443. On the vps I also have tailscale and another tailscale on a server at home advertising routes.

So I have music.mydomain for subsonic and plex.mydomain and files.mydomain for nextcloud, etc.

Its normal https web traffic so weird ports dont need to be accessed or remembered.
- Is it possible to dumb this down? I'm pretty stupid
I simply changed my public port to 443 in Plex and made a port forward on my home router. 443 -> internal_ip:32400
- How do I do this?
  
  On your Plex server, you change the public port here
  
  On your home router, you reserve the IP address (aka DHCP reservation) assigned to the machine hosting the Plex server (or you assign a static IP address to it) in my case it's 192.168.1.90, then you make a port forward so that port 443 on your public address is forwarded to your internal_ip port 32400.
  
  Now the home router part is specific to your router brand and model, so you'll have to do some research on your end.

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