Protecting from ISP Blocking or Throttling

[P19Dixon 0]

Looking for an outbound VPN configuration for EMBY Traffic [Server-->>ISP] to hide IPTV traffic from ISP.
Nord doesn't work. Need outbound traffic protected. Works fine with local firestick app like TiVimate and Nord. 

thoughts? suggestions? 

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[Luke 42078]

Hi, have you setup SSL for your server? That would also help.

[Tank_Killer 7]

Im my expeirence it was easier to setup VPN tunnels to each of my remote clients (only a couple) than use Emby's SSL. Average users could find it difficult to setup.

[P19Dixon 0]

18 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, have you setup SSL for your server? That would also help.

Hi Luke, sorry not sure how SSL would work as the connection outbound to IPTV service provider it not SSL.

[pwhodges 2012]

You asked specifically about outbound traffic, which is what putting SSL on your server will encrypt. That won't affect your connection to your IPTV provider though; the streaming traffic from your IPTV provider is inbound - does your IPTV provider not have an https option, which is what you require?

Paul

[P19Dixon 0]

On 30/04/2025 at 09:13, pwhodges said:

You asked specifically about outbound traffic, which is what putting SSL on your server will encrypt. That won't affect your connection to your IPTV provider though; the streaming traffic from your IPTV provider is inbound - does your IPTV provider not have an https option, which is what you require?

Paul

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your response. The IP is naturally initiated from the Emby Server as it is an http request (outbound) and then IPTV provider streams back. No encryption available. 
Using Nord or other VPN service would allow the Outbound http request to be initiated from another end server. But for some reason Emby can't complete the connection through the VPN. 

Looking for where I should look in logs etc to determine why this is happing. 
Any insight would help.

thx

Peter

[Apotropaic 41]

1 hour ago, P19Dixon said:

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your response. The IP is naturally initiated from the Emby Server as it is an http request (outbound) and then IPTV provider streams back. No encryption available. 
Using Nord or other VPN service would allow the Outbound http request to be initiated from another end server. But for some reason Emby can't complete the connection through the VPN. 

Looking for where I should look in logs etc to determine why this is happing. 
Any insight would help.

thx

Peter

Hi, yes you're correct and not going mad, what you want to do can be done but as far as I know not within emby itself.

I don't know what OS your server is running as the options and implementation are very OS dependent. But from your server you should be able to fire off some curl commands to verify your VPN connectivity.

curl --silent "https://ipinfo.io/ip"
curl --silent "https://ipinfo.io/country"
curl --silent "https://ipinfo.io/city"

From the same command prompt you can then issue a wget to the stream URL and confirm connectivity that way. If that works then your VPN connectivity looks ok so it must be something within your emby setup.

If I was guessing maybe your access is being geo-blocked, anyway let me know how you get on.

 

[P19Dixon 0]

On 12/05/2025 at 10:33, jaspalgill said:

Hi, yes you're correct and not going mad, what you want to do can be done but as far as I know not within emby itself.

I don't know what OS your server is running as the options and implementation are very OS dependent. But from your server you should be able to fire off some curl commands to verify your VPN connectivity.

curl --silent "https://ipinfo.io/ip"
curl --silent "https://ipinfo.io/country"
curl --silent "https://ipinfo.io/city"

From the same command prompt you can then issue a wget to the stream URL and confirm connectivity that way. If that works then your VPN connectivity looks ok so it must be something within your emby setup.

If I was guessing maybe your access is being geo-blocked, anyway let me know how you get on.

 

Thanks for the info - Still investigating - will have a solution soon. Most likely will implement banging the nord-vpn up through my UDM Pro and create specific traffic. rules for the target iptiv provider and route through the vpn for specific domain(s)
This will give me more granular control.

Will post the solution when completed. 

P

[Apotropaic 41]

You've got me thinking maybe I should do it that way from the gateway router as well, at the minute if I ever reboot my emby server I have to manually reconnect my VPN which during this testing phase it's not too annoying

Policy based routing on the UDM definitely give you that granular control, could even just use the source IP of the emby server to be extra sure you don't miss anything, being mindful of any remote users you have.

[P19Dixon 0]

55 minutes ago, jaspalgill said:

You've got me thinking maybe I should do it that way from the gateway router as well, at the minute if I ever reboot my emby server I have to manually reconnect my VPN which during this testing phase it's not too annoying

Policy based routing on the UDM definitely give you that granular control, could even just use the source IP of the emby server to be extra sure you don't miss anything, being mindful of any remote users you have.

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