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Does anyone have an idea of how this is built? I wonder if they are using QUIC with relay servers or something like Tailscale's DERP.
by ryandotsmith 1y ago
Does anyone have an idea of how this is built? I wonder if they are using QUIC with relay servers or something like Tailscale's DERP.
- realsdx 1y agoIf it's truly p2p, some relay would be there in case the client cannot be reached through NAT. Not sure how they would bear the cost of the bandwidth for unlimited transfers in that case
- wongarsu 1y agoTraffic is pretty cheap outside the big clouds. For example Hetzner charges $1/TB on a 10Gbit connection
- throwawayffffas 1y agoTheir 1Gbit connections are unmetered.
- iamcalledrob 1y agoIt's something closer to Tailscale DERP. We evaluated QUIC (and many other approaches). Turns out it's a lot harder than you might think to move traffic at high speed across the world, over residential-grade internet, and not drain your battery.
- binary132 1y agoDid you consider Iroh and if you chose not to use it, why not?
- 2color 1y agoI wouldn't be surprised if it's built with Iroh https://www.iroh.computer/ https://www.iroh.computer/