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Windows Kills SMB Speeds When Using Tailscale


SMB speeds can be severely impacted when multiple interfaces can reach a network.

Well, in my home network I have a Proxmox VM that, among other things, runs Tailscale as a subnet router. Consequently, my desktop now has 2 interfaces that can both reach my trusted 10.10.1.1/24 network - the gigabit NIC connected to the switch and the Tailscale virtual adapter. The usual way to change this is in the Control Panel, but if you try to set the Interface Metric manually, Windows won’t let you because the Tailscale interface somehow has an “empty” static IP address set.

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