For the past year, my network looked like one of those “draw the star without lifting your pencil” puzzles… except mine absolutely did lift the pencil. Everything passed through a central WireGuard hub: a hub-and-spoke setup. It worked, technically, but it also felt like driving across town just to talk to your neighbour – pretty slow and annoying.

Switching to Tailscale completely changed the vibe. Suddenly everything could talk to everything else, securely, easily and without the hub getting overwhelmed with switching.

Hub-and-Spoke Network (left) vs Full Mesh Network (right) | Joey Manani