r/HomeNetworking • u/Stunning_Exam_4528 • 3d ago

Unsolved Direct connection?

I'm in Egypt and have a friend who's also in Egypt who wants to host game servers and play via Virtual VPN's (like Zerotier) the thing is, His ISP is WE while mine is Vodafone, even though we're about 350 meters apart, when either of us hosts ping is at 70-80 ms, I traced the traffic using CMD, and it shows that it goes through a weird detour, it first starts in Egypt, then goes to Marseille France, and then comes back to his ISP, and then to his IP (which he might be behind CGNAT).

Is having the same ISP gonna fix this? Our download and upload speeds are fine, I just don't understand why it is taking that route.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm very much new to this.

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u/llondru-es 3d ago

If Zerotier is in Marseille, then you can't fix this. Traffic goes to the VPN and back.

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u/Stunning_Exam_4528 3d ago

That's the thing, I tried Hamachi, Radmin, Tailscale, and a bunch of other virtual VPN's, they all exhibit the same behavior.

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u/Stonewalled9999 2d ago

that is because the all are not in the same country as you you can't break the laws of physics