Tailscale

It keeps getting stuck starting when turning on the VPN so keep having to toggle for it to activate. It also doesn't play well with mobile data and seems to keep taking the longest possible route and get huge ping times and slow.

They really are doing things right, free, packed full of features, incredibly secure, minimalist, no ads, and supporting zero knowledge and decentralisation not dependent on their own servers. Superb.

Not only am I able to access my home PC from anywhere, I run a subnet with a Raspberry Pi at home and that allows me to remotely control my Icom ham radio equipment, that connects via RJ45 Ethernet, using the iPhone SDR-modem app over Tailscale when away from home. The Tailscale app is very stable and “just works”.

Since the latest update yesterday my battery is dropping like a stone. I’ve had to charge it twice and another top up in one day (iPhone 15 pro). Now supports Controld DNS which makes this a must use app for me. So despite the battery issues it is great. If that could be fixed it would be five stars.

It’s an amazing product but you have to be careful with usage as it drains battery a lot, especially if you use exit node.

Tailscale is a fantastic service that makes my life so much easier. It’s easy to setup with great features - HTTPS, taildrop and Tailscale ssh for example are brilliant and just the general NAT wizardry removes a layer of hassle/annoyance - it automagically deals with everything and just works. The VPN on demand feature ensures connection and is configurable and it seems like the recent battery improvements in version 1.62.0 of the iOS app have improved the battery drain issues I was experiencing for my particular use case. It’s now using about 9% in a 24 hour period, so still some work to do - but now usable. I look forward to further battery optimisations that will hopefully get that down to 1-3% like WireGuard so I can continue to use the app. Overall though, Well done for a fantastic product and active support community. Truly a great product. 👍

Tailscale is generally awesome. I use it every day. Considering WireGuard isn’t supposed to be a ‘chatty’ VPN this app destroys my battery with background activity, making it almost unviable.

So far so good. I highly recommend it as it looks to be a secure VPN solution that is easy to setup and convenient to connect to a homelab or a development container. There are similar solutions out there but they require a lot of steps to set up and even more to main. Tailscale just works 👍

I’d previously been using WireGuard with a Raspberry Pi at my home and parent’s house. While this worked it was a good amount of config, setting up all my devices, etc. Tail scale is a breeze, SSO with Google for auth, subnets exposed so effortlessly I often forget that I’m going across the Tailscale connections when accessing NAS devices or CCTV NVR.

Don’t let the simple GUI fool you — Tailscale is an absolutely phenomenal service, with a generous personal plan. I’m using mine to route all my DNS queries through my Pi-hole, even outside of my local network. And TailDrop file sharing is a dream. Highly recommended!