> There is no other way. That's not true, or at least not always. Plex manages this just fine with my media content. Plex Media Server reaches out to my rout

> There is no other way. That's not true, or at least not always. Plex manages this just fine with my media content. Plex Media Server reaches out to my router and punches an inbound port to itself. When I'm then watching from outside my home network, the traffic is going direct to my home IP.