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I wanted to use this, but reading the documentation, my understanding was that with tailscale data goes through a server. Am I understanding it correctly? EDI
by ahmedfromtunis 3y ago
I wanted to use this, but reading the documentation, my understanding was that with tailscale data goes through a server.
Am I understanding it correctly?
EDIT
> This makes it a great solution for sending sensitive or large files without third-party servers in the middle.
It clearly says the opposite. I don't know where I got that idea from.
- maronato 3y agoIt sends the data using wireguard, so it’s p2p. There is a coordination server that sets up the initial connection, but after that both devices are connected directly to each other.
- raihansaputra 3y agoAt the very worse case (NAT hell or something else) they may use a DERP relay. But if you have a cooperative connection or plain local connection it works fine. There's encryption overhead though, I can't saturate a 1Gbps over Tailscale on M1, while direct connection works (iperf3).