I think in the context of the post, you’re missing everything else that’s not remote file sharing

I have wrote up another comment in more detail of this, but to briefly summarize there isn’t any outrageous latency that isn’t present on other remote control applications (Xrdp for example)

I’m not well versed into Gstreamer, in my mind it is a new ffmpeg and in fact, ffmpeg is what waypipe uses for it’s video backend, so perhaps it’s also possible to extend the waypipe code to add a bitrate switch on the ffmpeg calls, though there’s nothing of that right now, would be a nice suggestion to the project

There’s actually some issues with games that make the Mouse Cursor stick to the center and turn the camera with movement (like most FPS do) which also happened on Windows to me, the Mouse has like x10 the sensitivity and is hardly controllable, other games that don’t do that (like point and click games where the Cursor is free) don’t present this issue

Besides that, I have played mostly keyboard centric games, a fighting-game style MMO that I have engaged in both PvE and PvP Gameplay and besides the bullshit moments in PvP where the Wi-fi turned on me, I really can’t complain of performance, haven’t played Souls games OR games using a joystick controller, it’s probably something that needs testing

If you mean the compression that waypipe offers with -c, I used for the longest time “-c none” thinking it would free my CPU of all overhead possible, that’s probably the right play on a local network environment but I have since some time ago rid of that to see and I again don’t notice a difference, so if you plan to go out and connect back through a private LAN like Tailscale you may want to keep it on the default compression algorithm

Right, so as I mentioned in the post, hardware accelerated encoding for waypipe greatly increases performance and that’s the one thing I can tell you makes the night and day of this setup

In my experience, my two devices are low-end on my local network, one of them 10 years old (The Local PC) on Ethernet and the other (The “Remote” PC) is in 5G Wi-fi, audio is 1:1 I can barely tell if there’s delay, except when it stutters due to the Wi-fi being wi-fi, for video it’s clearly compressed with h264 so colors are a bit off but otherwise it doesn’t struggle either, latency and responsiveness feel right, like I mentioned in the post WINE Games is my use case for this, and playing Games has a high bar for that, maybe at some point my processor gets jacked to 100% due to the games and it struggles but it has never crashed, and it recovers once intensity tones down

Compared to other systems, I have only used Xrdp and Microsoft’s RDP on Windows; and I don’t feel any different besides the lack of additional features like drag and drop between devices that aren’t a dealbreaker for me

The title kinda reads like a question, so you’re not wrong thinking I’m doing so, however that’s more oriented for like search engines to pick up this post, as often users would type straight up looking for help on something, that’s the idea of that, but in the first paragraph I explain that this is not a question post

Right, I didn’t pick up on that m/multicast DNS difference, I thought I was talking about the same thing, thanks for clarification

Sounds like I do have options here, so while I wait for my ISP to comply, I’ll also try out Avahi then

I think I understand why Avahi wouldn’t work with that explanation, I keep digging and now my router is not exactly inaccessible, it’s managed by my ISP instead which is annoying but I supposedly can still ask them to tweak things for me so I may have a chance

Tailscale already has DNS servers working on Tailnets (they call it mDNS, or magicDNS) which is I believe 100.100.100.100… actually, the documentation states that every tailscale-running device is a DNS server on itself too but either way that IP is private on every tailnet, remains accessible and host names are configurable on the Tailnet too

If I’m not mistaken on the functioning of DNS, I should be able to it with that primary-router secondary-tailscale DNS setup I hypothesized and on LAN that will yield perfect connectivity, while out from home there would be no such records and it’ll fall back to Tailscale’s DNS which is already private (worst concern is just sending a request for a hostname on public network but that shouldn’t be that big of a deal)

At this point I might have this solved, but of course, more input is nice too, It’ll take some time for my ISP to work for me on this

I’m a bit conflicted with your answer, I suppose for a DNS server my best go-to should be my router, but I don’t have access to it, next option would be DNS servers on each device and make localhost the primary server, then my router the secondary? Assuming that’s the case I think that would break when I take a device off the local network as outside it would still assume things work like in the LAN. I could see it working if I had access to my router and primary server was DHCP provided (in LAN that would be my router with it’s DNS configured to point to my devices with hostnames, outside it wouldn’t have any and use the secondary) and secondary Tailscale’s (which supports mDNS so with the same names it would hit my device’s IPs from the tailnet) but I don’t think I can get that router access…

Unless I misunderstood something of the solution, if so can I ask for clarification?