2025-05-28, 11:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 2025-05-28, 12:29 PM by toytown. Edited 2 times in total.)
So as i have an idle client (looks like they paused a show 2 days ago) i got curious about your findings and thought i would have a look at the data from my firewall, whist logged into jellyfin over my LAN to make sure nobody fired up a show etc. I reset my firewall counters for port 8096 and after 10 mins i see that i have received 2.2MB and transferred 91MB.
So it looks like i would also be sending about 550MB of data an hour for a client which is doing absolutely nothing. Not an insignificant amount for people with data caps/lower upload speeds/a few idling clients. The show itself is only 1GB (about 20mins long) and extrapolating the data means it might have already used 26.5GB of network traffic.
I'll report back after a longer monitoring period if none of the other family members start a show.
EDIT - after exactly 1hour its 10MB received and 408MB transferred.
So it looks like i would also be sending about 550MB of data an hour for a client which is doing absolutely nothing. Not an insignificant amount for people with data caps/lower upload speeds/a few idling clients. The show itself is only 1GB (about 20mins long) and extrapolating the data means it might have already used 26.5GB of network traffic.
I'll report back after a longer monitoring period if none of the other family members start a show.
EDIT - after exactly 1hour its 10MB received and 408MB transferred.