I recently found this on Reddit while looking into why jellyfin is effected so much by latency. I found that this worked and thought I would share it because it is generally applicable, takes five minutes to setup, and helps a lot with bandwidth on higher latency connections. I admit I am not sure of the technical stuff behind this, so if anyone would like to chime in that would be much appreciated.

  • Justin
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    97 months ago

    It’s an algorithm for determining how fast to upload packets. This article just talks about how to enable it.

    Here’s the Wikipedia section about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_congestion_control#TCP_BBR

    The gist is that instead of only throttling upload rate based on packet loss, BBR constantly measures roundtrip delay (ping) to determine how much bandwidth is available.