Zerotier generally tries to NOT directly relay through their servers; instead, they use the servers to "punch holes" through nat so that a direct connection can be established, and ZT is not in the data plane of the feed. Relays are an absolute last resort with ZT. Normally your latency and throughput drops notably if you have to relay through ZT. The NAT hole-punching is really quite amazing on ZT...Although latency is pretty bad if relayed, things do route/connect. I see ping times in the 600-800ms range using BTH with relay from phone to router. This router also has ZeroTier, so if disconnect from BTH and use ZT as VPN instead, latency is about 150-250ms in same ping test. I'd imagine difference is ZT roots are closer than Latvia...not that ZeroTier is inherently faster, just way closer in proximity to California.
Statistics: Posted by JimKusz — Tue Jan 30, 2024 1:15 am