--- title: Using Tailscale's Peer Relays to fix a homelab... description: Tailscale's Peer Relays feature provides a solution for poor international network connectivity by allowing users to designate their own nodes as dedicated... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/using-tailscale-s-peer-relays-to-fix-a-homelab-connection-from-across-the-globe-cnl8nn7bx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Using Tailscale's Peer Relays to fix a homelab connection from across the globe | daily.dev og:description: Tailscale's Peer Relays feature provides a solution for poor international network connectivity by allowing users to designate their own nodes as dedicated... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/using-tailscale-s-peer-relays-to-fix-a-homelab-connection-from-across-the-globe-cnl8nn7bx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cnL8nN7bx.png og:image:alt: Using Tailscale's Peer Relays to fix a homelab connection from across the globe og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Using Tailscale's Peer Relays to fix a homelab connection from across the globe **[Tailscale](https://daily.dev/sources/tailscale)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Tailscale's Peer Relays feature provides a solution for poor international network connectivity by allowing users to designate their own nodes as dedicated traffic relays. When connecting from Delhi to Minnesota infrastructure, the author experienced severely throttled throughput (2.2 Mbits/sec) through Tailscale's shared DERP relay infrastructure due to CGNAT and symmetric NAT preventing direct peer-to-peer connections. By configuring a peer relay on homelab infrastructure, throughput improved 12.5x to 27.5 Mbits/sec. The setup involves enabling relay server mode on a node, port forwarding UDP traffic, and configuring ACL grants. Peer relays provide dedicated capacity without competing for bandwidth on shared infrastructure while maintaining end-to-end WireGuard encryption. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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