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Geo-distributed Jellyfin (lemmy.zip)
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Hi TCP users,

Currently, I have a homelab server that runs Jellyfin with direct access to local media content and a reverse proxy point to it. While it works well for people in Europe (where the server is), it is quite slow for some of my friends who are living in Asia. I am having some options in mind:

  • Hire a VPS in Asia and set up another Jellyfin instance there. This works but I don't really want to have two Jellyfin instances with two databases and also accessing to local media content will be curbersome to manage.
  • Hire a VPS in Asia and set up a CDN but I am not sure if it will ever work with Jellyfin ?

So I would like to ask do you know any things about this and any idea to improve this situation ?

Thank you very much!

Edit: Thanks for all of your response. Based on my experience, I think the slowness is caused by the fact that there are too many hops to jump through before reaching the final client. So I think I will try to do several things:

  • Try to optimize my upload speed, it is fast enough but not very stable recently so it could have some impact
  • Set up a second Jellyfin instance and sync a part of my library there for my friends.

Edit: Slow here means both slow page loading and slow buffering.

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[–] johnnixon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was trying to stream my Jellyfin server on vacation..Over Tailnet I couldn't reliably stream anything. Over VPN it was as good as local. I can't believe it's just a routing issue but I wasn't proxied so it should have been the same. So a VPN for one user might fix the issue. The headaches of segmenting the network on that VPN are another problem even if the hardware/router is capable but doable.

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is it possible you misconfigured your tailnet and instead of using a direct connection to your local subnet router you were using an ethereal port via a DERP relay? You can read into it more on tailscales documentation, but essentially you need to leave UPD inbound port 41641 open to your subnet router inbound from WAN.

[–] johnnixon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I checked for relay. I recall it's pretty easy to see on the desktop icon. I'll have to try again next time I'm away to see.

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I don't know if it's on the icon, I believe you have to use the cli "tailscale status" to view your tailnet nodes connection types