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improving homelab upload performance- VPS proxy? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 year ago by lemming741 to c/selfhosted

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I've got 1000/50 service from a mid-size ISP. It's pretty consistent- any time I run a speed test from home, it will hit those numbers. I have an opnsense plugin checking twice a day.

Performance from my self-hosted services to the internet, however, is very inconsistent. Sometimes I get the full 50, sometimes it will only hit 5 Mbit/s.

Is it possible a VPS proxy could provide less congested routes? Is there a better way to troubleshoot the bottleneck? When i notice a slowdown, usually watching a clip on frigate, I'll use a public speedtest to check my field connection. If it's over 50 down, I'll check librespeed on my server. If frigate or plex is fast, librespeed will be too. If I've noticed a problem, librespeed has always agreed.

My host machine is a 5700g w/ 64 gigs of ram, X520 nic to an S33 modem, so I don't think it's a hardware bottleneck.

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[–] carl_dungeon 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is this cable service? Cable often shares capacity with people on your “block” so when everyone is uploading, your upload suffers. I had real trouble with cable a few years ago where intermittently my upload would throttle so hard that tcp acks would fail to send and my download would tank too. FIOS was the best thing that every happened to my internet!

[–] lemming741 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, WOW. It's docsis 3.1 down, but still 8x 3.0 up. They're planning high split and fiber but I'll have to wait. My nic is dual sfp+, just need something worthy to plug into it.

[–] carl_dungeon 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice about the NIC- I’m still on gigabit in the house which is fine- 100ish MBps is fast enough that copying a movie or something is still just a minute or two, but my NAS supports a 10Gb expansion card- I might upgrade one day. I don’t know how much speed I get get through my CAT 6- I haven’t tested above gigabit speeds. Really though I don’t need my LAN to be substantially faster than my internet, so gigabit is fine for the next few years I think.

[–] lemming741 2 points 1 year ago

I built it with the goal of being upgradable when prices came down and I grew into the system. That lasted 2 months and I'm swimming in transceivers and switches lol