Hi guys! Just…that. My parents live in Europe, while my servers are at my home in Asia. Europe home has fiber at about 200Mbps symmetric, and Asia home has 1Gbps symmetric. But due to distance, it’s hard to get them to reach very fast speeds at all, being capped at about 1MB/s when transferring files or watching Jellyfin. Is there any way to do some sort of static faster routing for the specific home IPs?

  • @[email protected]English
    4•11 months ago

    1 MB/s sounds really terrible. Doesn’t seem right.

    I haven’t tried anything like that personally, but I don’t think speeds should be affected that much. Latency should be the main problem.

    I assume you are using a VPN; So which one are you using?

    As far as I know there is absolutely nothing you can personally do on the WAN side of networking (at least on a normal home connection).

    You can’t use static routes in the way you’re likely thinking.

    You can only set up a static route for one hop away. So, static routes don’t work over the internet, because there are a lot of routers (hops) in between the two home routers.

    If you had a really long fiber cable that stretches all the way to your home in Asia it would work.

    What you could do is set up a faster VPN like Wireguard and look for any bottlenecks or issues in either network.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      3•11 months ago

      Thanks, that’s insightful. Since the routers are a bit oldish, I can’t get them to wireguard each other. I can individually create connections for the specific servers that will connect through, I reckon that might work. At this point I was using dynamic domains to connect from one point to another (specially for the Jellyfin part), but VPN might get better performance. I’ll give it a shot…thanks!