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submitted 11 hours ago* (last edited 43 minutes ago) by xana@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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[-] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Maybe we don't talk about the same. The uplink at OPs router isn't the problem, there is enough upload speed so that others in Europe can stream. Users in Asia don't have enough bandwidth, so there's a bottleneck somewhere in between.

And yes, a VPN could help by routing the traffic through other hops, but chances are that it doesn't help or even make it worse, but it's worth trying.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

It's probably not bandwidth but latency and packet loss that's the problem.

[-] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Latency shouldn't be a big problem if it doesn't have massive spikes. Packet loss could be a problem, seems like Jellyfin doesn't have an option zu increase the buffer size which may help. Or the problem is in combination with transcoding.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world -1 points 4 hours ago

Bandwidth does not degrade over distance. That's not how that works...

Again, I'm confused on what you're suggesting the actual issue is here.

[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 hours ago

If the uplink bandwidth is more than sufficient for users in Europe, and it doesn't degrade over distance, then why is the same uplink not enough for the exact same thing in Asia?

this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2026
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