[ahmedfromtunis]

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]

It 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]

At 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).