Ths might be a silly question, but asking those is how i learn sometimes. I’m trying to install my first Linux distro to set up a Plex server and one of the few things I know is you need a wired internet connection. My intended server location is across the house from my router, and there isnt much room there to set up temporarily. It would be possible, just a removed and a half. Is it instead possible to connect my SSD via SATA to USB to a laptop, install Ubuntu and wireless adapter drivers on it while connected to ethernet, then put the SSD in the server to boot? Or do I need to do all this through my intended setup?
Thanks for the help, just trying to make my first Linux install as painless as possible.
EDIT: Thank you all for your responses, I’m going to respond as I can since I’m at work. I The number one thing I learned is that I need to do more research. I recognize only a handful of these acronyms lol
Mostly for bandwidth and connection stability reasons… if the plex server is only serving your own home then likely not much to worry about but if you are serving plex content for ppl outside your home it can be troublesome if your wifi starts acting up and they don’t know why they suddenly start buffering.
Nothing about plex itself is limited by wifi it’s just a potentially a high bandwidth / throughput service and typically you wouldn’t want that on wifi.
Yeah I want to do wired eventually, wifi is just a stopgap so I can phase out paid streaming asap without completely interrupting service for other people on my plans
are you doing the entire *arr stack as well? There are some cool tools to connect to plex as well allowing for things like requesting of shows that then integrate with he *arr stack.
This is baby’s first Linux and also plex server, so I have no idea what that is. But I’ll definitely look into that, it sounds really useful to be able to integrate the two