Using LAN is OK as long as you understand that you almost certainly shouldn't put anything but other routers with full infrastructure routing knowledge on LAN.

@juelmk said in No inbound traffic coming into my WAN: When I set my WAN interface to get dhcp address from the modem it get 0.0.0.0 Well then how would it work? You sure your own the pfsense wan interface plugged into your router? You sure the cable is good? When pfsense does get an IP you need to make sure that your wan and lan of pfsense do not overlap - ie they can not be the same network 192.168.0/24 for example

That's great to hear! As far as the YouTube content... Hmmm that's a tricky one! Might be a little bit beyond my pay grade! Ruling out a coincidence, I'd be thinking it's something to do with the port that they use or a connection (firewall state) being kept open, but I'd only be guessing.