Bandwidth Usage (basic networking questions)

Geez dude... break it down. I don't want to read a James Michener novel.

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1. If I use my laptops remotely and connect to the VPN server on the NAS (using "domainname.com"), will my home bandwidth be used up if I DONT open any files? Of course bandwidth would get used up if on my laptop I opened a video file for example, but what about if the VPN connection is up, but I don't directly access any files?

VPN connection still needs some KB/MB to establish and hold the connection. So yes, even if you do not access any files, you need to transfer some bytes.

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2. On my laptop, if I go to domainname.com:32400/web to access plex remotely and I play a video, am I correct in thinking that home bandwidth will be used to send the video?

Yes.

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3. What about, as in #2, I access plex remotely through the VPN but go to 192.168.1.xxx:32400/web instead? Does bandwidth still get used at home? So accessing through the local network and not through the domain...

Yes. - for example: youtube. You need your own bandwith to see a video which is hosted at youtube. Same for your own network. You need to stream it and use your own bandwith for that.

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4. On my desktops at HOME, will bandwidth get used up if I play a video through plex by going to 192.168.1.xxx:32400/web? (unsure about this one but I dont think so)

No, if you are in the same LAN, you do not use internet bandwith.

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5. Likewise, on my desktops at HOME, will bandwidth get used up if I play a video through plex by going to domainname.com:32400/web?

Depends on your router. Usually it knows that this domain name is in your LAN and does not connect to WAN. So it should not waste any bandwith.

By the way, I know why you connect through your frootvpn IP to your nas. Thats because your client enforces a route so it cant answer via normal connection anymore. If you like i can give you a how to later on how to fix that route.

Greetings
David

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Geez dude... break it down. I don't want to read a James Michener novel.

Hehe... and I was thinking about War And Peace from Tolstoi.

Hm....I think I need some time to divide this VPN "construct" into it's parts. But why do you use external VPN services to connect to your home? There are ways to do that directly. I have been using OpenVPN for years now, server and client. Ok, the server has a fixed IP, but all you need to make sure is that the server propagates it's IP somewhere, this can be a file on a private webspace which contains the actual IP address and is readable for the clients. Or use a service like dyndns.

Of course a VPN tunnel uses bandwith, OVPN uses control packets to assure that the tunnel is up and running. But that's not that much. And I dont know if someone can tell what is going on if you have a "permanent" connection to froot.

@datadigger because he uses a vpn client his nas becomes unavailable from his own home ip. I know that problem and can post a fix for that later when I'm home.

Greetings
David

@Nem, I'm sure you are great guy. Don't take any offense. It is just hard to go from reading about double quotes/suppress expansion for use in if then else commands to seeing a long post.

@Mr. Patience (a.k.a Sebby boy), way to break it down man.

@datadigger, haha,.. Like your posts and your English is quite good. If you want to be a mod you have my vote!

David... We need some emoticons with a real tongue.

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@datadigger because he uses a vpn client his nas becomes unavailable from his own home ip. I know that problem and can post a fix for that later when I'm home.

Ok, I think I got the point now. After some reading I realized that OVPN on OMV is just a client.

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I do use a service like dyndns (noip to be exact), but the problem still persists for the reason davidh2k mentioned

Agree.

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what do you mean by a permanent connect to froot?

Well, the OMV box is a VPN client. Does the froot server opens a new tunnel to your home box in case you want to connect or is the client always connected to the froot server?

Guys, all you have to do is fix the routing. I have the fix at home on my server, I can supply it later this day.

Greetings
David

Ok David, I am interested in this fix.

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@datadigger, haha,.. Like your posts and your English is quite good. If you want to be a mod you have my vote!

Oh....thanks for the flowers. But I believe there are enough mods around here and I believe too that the big boss does not like me very much after that logoutbutton-story.

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I believe too that the big boss does not like me very much after that logoutbutton-story.

I´m pretty sure he is not unforgiving. And you only made a feature request which he denied. And we mods have a big voice regarding this forum

My entrys in /etc/rc.local look like this (to be reboot persistant, replace with your own values! read source below for proper instruction):

echo "1 admin" >> /etc/iproute2/rt_tables
ip route add 192.168.178.0/24 dev eth0 src 192.168.178.58 table admin
ip route add default via 192.168.178.1 dev eth0 table admin
ip rule add from 192.168.178.58/32 table admin
ip rule add to 192.168.178.58/32 table admin

Source for fix: http://kindlund.wordpress.com/…-default-routes-in-linux/

Greetings
David

The big boss does not get mad about feature requests.