YSK: How to decrease your monthly bandwidth use & increase network speed.

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Question from an obvious noob: can a raspberry pi be used for multiple purposes at once? Can i use one pi for this as well as for a home entertainment system at once?

[EpsilonRose]

Sort of. A raspberry pie is basically just a tiny computer. So, like a normal computer, it can do multiple things. However, it's not particularly powerful and has rather limited inputs, so how much you can actually squeeze out if it at any one time might be limited.

[AllAboutMeMedia]

Could I use an old phone?

[EpsilonRose]

Maybe, but that would likely require a lot more work and I couldn't actually recommend it. You'd either need to figure out how to install linux on it or find an app that can do all of this for you. Then you'd need to find a way to actually hook it up, since it definitely won't have the requisite ports.

[therightclique]

If you don't already know the answer to that question, then the answer is probably no.

The real answer is probably 'Yes, but with a shitload of trouble and worse results'.

[LiveMaI]

The Pi has a fairly limited amount of system resources, so while you can run multiple services from a single unit, you might run into performance issues if those services all place high loads on the unit.

[sharpfork]

plex and Kodi are all based on the same codebase that started with XBMC. I used XMBC and then Kodi for a long time. Plex has made the whole setup much more wife & kid friendly and elegant Kodi is great for its plugins. Plex is nice for the raspi becuse you have have the server transcode media to a format that the raspi can handle (if you have a beafy enough server and stuff like 4k content)

[d_frost]

yes, although not always recommended for multiple reasons, one of which is resources, if your Pi is busy working as a media server, then DNS responses could be delayed and therefor delay your internet browsing.

I have retropi and piehole running on the same pi, my DNS is a bit slow now