Peertube doesn't work with NAT/LAN

[SoniEx2]

What happened?

Peertube doesn't benefit from a LAN's internal links, instead being limited to the internet connection speed.

What do you expect to happen instead?

Peertube should benefit from local peers, just like torrents.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Setup a LAN on a dial-up (56kbps) connection

2. Install peertube on a remote server

3. Access that peertube from multiple computers in the LAN

[SoniEx2]

Suggestion: Make a native client, at least for Windows and Android.

[McFlat]

I wonder if this is a bug in one of the upstream dependencies, like webtorrent for instance

[SoniEx2]

Nope. It's just that there's no Local Peer Discovery on the web, you have to have a tracker.

[Chocobozzz]

Related to webtorrent/webtorrent#1136?

[ghost]

fwiw, WebRTC can work between clients on the local LAN if you are willing to establish those connections via a remote tracker. I'd expect that normally we don't publish RFC1918 (private) IPs to the tracker, even if WebRTC makes this information available to the client, but it could be useful to publish that info in such a way that clients behind the same public IP (same NAT, presumably) can find other RFC1918 IPs on that network.

[SoniEx2]

if that can be done, please do

my dial-up will thank you

[Chocobozzz]

So I think it's more a WebTorrent issue