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by tshaddox 76 days ago
For $5 a month you can also get a Mullvad VPN exit node. It’s billed directly through Tailscale which makes it painless.

When I’m outside the U.S. I get much better speeds through the Mullvad exit node than through my (U.S.) home exit node. I’m not sure why, since my home internet is gigabit fiber and I confirmed that I had a direct connection (no DERP relay).
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xnyan 75 days ago
Where's the Mullvad exit node located? It may just be geographically closer to your travel location than your home is. Even if it's about the same distance geographically, the routing path is different and traffic to whatever datacenter is running the mulvad node can be routed to more efficiently than your residential ip.

poking around with MTR (traceroute and ping combined) using various exit nodes and destinations would give you some more information if you're interested.

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tshaddox 73 days ago
They offer a ton of locations around the world, like most VPNs. But I mostly used locations in the U.S. near my home exit node. I suspect it is something related to routing.
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