[SOLVED] Jellyfin Public Access

[ID7]

Hi All,
I'm finding myself wanting access to my Jellyfin Media from public places more now.

Currently I use a Wireguard VPN, I have 1Gig Down & 100MB Upload so I'm always limited to max 100MB Download when connecting to VPN.
This is all great but I cannot seem to stream 1080p@10MBps well enough, there is stuttering. Works fine locally. 

When testing Jellyfin external access without VPN, the stream is perfect.

How do people typically set this up, is there some nice security that I can put in place? I'm very hesitant to open the port to the world.

Apologies I'm sure this question has been asked a few times but I can't get the wording right to find other threads.

[ID7]

I managed to resolve all of my issues by switching from a Wireguard VPN hosted on my box (same as media server) to a Raspberry Pi4. I also tried a Raspberry Pi1 but this didn't seem to cut it.

[TheDreadPirate]

Glad you figured it out. Meant to reply to your thread, but got distracted.

When you were running the VPN on the same box Jellyfin, you probably need to add a route or default gateway so that traffic exiting the tunnel knows where to go.

[ID7]

Glad you figured it out.  Meant to reply to your thread, but got distracted.

When you were running the VPN on the same box Jellyfin, you probably need to add a route or default gateway so that traffic exiting the tunnel knows where to go.

Yeah I switched to a split tunnel now which is awesome! I was also only running 4GB RAM at the time on the box which shortly got upgraded to 32GB.

I see in your signature you use RAM for transcoding, do you find this better over using the iGPU with something like Intel Quicksync?

[TheDreadPirate]

The RAM disk is only for temporarily storing the transcodes, which is done by the 12100's iGPU Quicksync, instead of writing them to disk. The older SSD (see sig) in my system doesn't have great write speeds.

[ID7]

The RAM disk is only for temporarily storing the transcodes, which is done by the 12100's iGPU Quicksync, instead of writing them to disk.  The older SSD (see sig) in my system doesn't have great write speeds.

Oh nice, great way around the older SSD speeds, nice setup man!