2024-11-04, 02:35 AM
(2024-11-03, 10:27 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: For testing, can you setup port forwarding on port 8096 in your router and have your friend bypass the VPN? We need to rule out some limitation with how fast/consistently wireguard can stream data.
Good idea, I hadn't thought of that.
So we gave this a try, and the stuttering was still occuring, so we can rule out the vpn as the issue at least.
A couple of other things we tried:
- Video decoding with his Intel iGPU and his Nvidia GPU. Neither of them were ever close to being maxed out, so unlikely to be a hardware problem.
- My server has two HDDs, one connected via SATA and one via a USB dock. We played titles from both, and both experienced stuttering, so I don't think it's related to the drives.
- I transcoded one of the videos with Handbrake ahead of time, and the resulting average bitrate was 10 mbps. This direct played without issue, so it seems to be bandwidth related, somewhere.
Any other things stand out as a potential problem? I've still been able to successfully stream to my phone over the VPN on a cell connection during this, so it seeks like my server and router can handle the traffic. The only difference between us is the physical proximity to my server. There just seems to be something between him and me that's causing the bottleneck.