I’ve setup an old laptop with linux mint running jellyfin and arr stack in docker containers.
When I run it the Internet in other devices in the network becomes virtually unusable after about 10 mins of the containers having run.
I don’t really know what to do, so I wanted to ask for advice.
Do you have a 15mb DSL connection or something? If it’s close to 100mb or more you should be fine on this front. Maybe your router is super old and cant handle lots of connections that the arr stack requires. You can limit the amount of parallel connections and the total bandwidth available to the arr stack.
As for Jellyfin, if the problem is your slow connection to the outside internet, then you can force transcode all streams to non local clients to a lower bitrate, but direct stream to local clients (assuming your router can handle that, but I’ve never seen a piece of networking equipment that is slower that 100mbs)
Does your router have webinterface where you can monitor and potentially limit network usage of devices?
I’m not too familiar with the arr stack but if it is constantly downloading videos it’s probably using full bandwidth. Maybe you can also limit in the arr settings or throttle the network interface on the laptop.
I’m using huawei b535-232 ans I haven’t been able to find such panel on the Web interface.
If you’re using QBittorrent, you can throttle upload/download speeds in the settings. I believe it wants speeds set in kibibytes (KiB) so you’ll need to convert your megabit internet speeds to your desired kibibyte limit (say maybe 50% or less of your available bandwidth).
Wow, I totally forgot I can do this. Thanks
For the record, 100 Mbits is 12.5 Megabytes, or about 12,207 Kibibytes, so you’ll want to limit it to maybe 6,000 Kibibytes for it to be around half.
