How to get around a bad peering ?

delivereath

Hi all,

The peering between my provider (Cablecom Switzerland) and Hertzner (where my dedi is) seems to be saturated on the evening. While I can watch 4K content from my plex server in the middle of the day, I can't even watch a 10 Mbps stream in the evening.

I'm wondering if it would be possible to set up a vpn/proxy with a provider that offers a good peering to cablecom and also to Hetzner. Would such a solution improve my connection to Hetzner ?

Corey

I assume it would as along as the peering between cablecom and your VPN and hetzner and your VPN stayed stable.

WebHostingBuzz

Have you tried talking to your upstream provider? They may be able to help you with this

BunnySpeed

A VPN would definitely help, try something like Amsterdam or France perhaps. I did this when Telia was routing a certain provider in Los Angeles through London which resulted in an almost unusable connection. Usually, Server->Server connections are pretty good, so as long as the VPN uses a different route that isn't congested, it should solve the problem.

eol

+1 for VPN.

babuum

Don't use UPC. Seriously if you can get something like 80Mbit/s+ VDSL from a provider with decent peering do it. Thats way better than having a 500Mbit/s connection which can't even provide 10Mbit/s.

teamacc

Get double paid traffic on your server: https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Double_Paid_Traffic/en

stefeman

This is pretty much the only thing that you can do. This will fuck up video pausing and TV compatibility though.

https://quickbox.io/knowledgebase/set-up-a-cdn-for-plex-with-cloudflare-nginx/

gol3m

I have successfully used a VPN and Cloudflare in cases of bad peering.