Tailscale low internet speed

Posted by HGrizza

Both on my iphone and on my tv are connected to the main internet and tailscale. They are able to connect barely and when i ping my connection on tailscale from my phone it shows a average of 15 ms while labled as direct connection. Please help me fix this.

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HGrizza wrote:

Chris wrote:

Thanks for your patience, and sorry this has taken a while to get a real answer. A 15 ms ping marked "direct" tells us Tailscale is connecting your phone straight to the box rather than through a relay, and that the trip is short. It does not measure how much data can move, so the slowdown is probably coming from something else. My best guess, not yet confirmed, is the exit node setting. SparkBox offers itself to your Tailscale devices as an exit node by default. When a phone or TV has it selected, everything that device does on the internet goes through your box, so the box's upload speed can slow down ordinary browsing and streaming too. One check: on the iPhone, open the Tailscale app and look for an Exit Node setting. If your SparkBox is selected there, set it to None. If the TV has a Tailscale app, check the same setting there. Then try the same thing again. Reply here and tell me whether it is still slow, and what it is slow for: every website, or one SparkBox app such as Jellyfin. Please don't paste IP addresses or your account email.

HGrizza wrote:

Every website adress and jellyfin client with tailscale is slow and no exit nodes are on

Chris wrote:

Sorry, the exit node setting I suggested was the wrong lead. You have none selected, so it is not what is slowing your phone, and I should not have sent you to check it. A 15 ms ping shows the connection is short. It does not show how fast large downloads or streams move, so the slow part is still unexplained and I have not confirmed a cause yet. One check on the iPhone: load a website with Tailscale on and note roughly how long it takes. Then switch Tailscale off in the Tailscale app, load the same website on the same Wi-Fi, and compare. Tell me which was faster and roughly how long each took. What the assistant knows about the exit node step has been corrected, so it does not send the next person down the same path.