Hi,
I’m currenty using Oracle Free Tier for Jellyfin (hosted in Paris) and i wanted to know what is the proper way to speed up media delivery when i’m far away from the server location ? (Korea currently)
EDIT : After all your replies, my VPN through Hong Kong give me the best speed.
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Okay, so I have actually lived in Korea for 15 years, and am into self hosting, servers for media, etc.
What I can tell you is, you are fucked. Peering to anywhere other than Japan is a nightmare.
Give up and build your own server in your own home. No amount of peering tricks or CDNs will help you.
The best you’ll get in terms of connections to major service providers is hosting in Dallas, which should get you around 100mbps.
Peering is actually a complex issue. The ISP you’re currently using might not have a good peering with your data center operator.
One way to force a different peering is by complaining to your ISP. Include the server’s IP address in the complain, and their sysadmin might take a look and alter their routing table so traffics going to your data center will go through different route (assuming the ISP is not shitty and have multiple high quality peering AND actually looking at your support request).
Another way is by using a VPN. By using a VPN, you’ll bypass your ISP’s network routing. Your traffic will go through your VPN provider’s data center instead, which have completely different peering partners than your ISP. Try connecting to different country (e.g. Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Europe) to see which one is the fastest. For example, your ISP might have a good peering to Hong Kong, so by connecting to a Hong Kong VPN server, you’ll bypass your ISP’s shitty peering to Europe.
Finger cross though. In general, connection between this part of Asia and Europe is not great because there is no direct route. Connection to US is a lot faster in comparison because there are many direct undersea fiber optics links.
I used to oversee WAN and peering operations for a large multi site. Residential ISPs almost never respond to reports of inefficient routes unless you are one of their peers, big business customers, or you really know your stuff and send in a detailed report showing asymetric routes, bad bgp info, etc.
As far as a VPN goes, that probably wouldn’t help either. You will probably increase the number of hops and latency. Your route will still egress your isp gateway, to your VPN provider, then travel over the Internet and to your remote server, while adding additional protocol overhead. Yes, it is remotely possible that there is an improved link from his regional VPN node to his remote provider, but unlikely from my experience with traffic engineering.
Actually in my case it did help. I got faster speed to one of my VPS in Paris (OVH) if I use VPN to Singapore first. Heck, even my VPS in Singapore (also OVH) is faster too after connecting to the VPN. My ISP probably really have a bad peering with OVH.
That’s interesting. Any chance your ISP could have been qos’ing streaming video? Although Singapore would be about the one place where a VPN concentrator would help; it is pretty much the big fiber hub in that local region for East, West, North connectivity.
