As much as the link supports, ZeroTier's overhead is minimal.
Most likely there would be direct connectivity between both devices (ZeroTier uses UDP so UDP hole punching might do the trick, anyway all this happens in the background)
If there is a direct path, no traffic ever goes through ZeroTier servers, it's like the two nodes communicating directly, and will support whatever speeds a direct link would support. I've reached 200 + Mbps (Spectra to AWS Mumbai)
It also depends on the node itself, cause it depends on the CPU of the VM as well, but unless you are looking for gigabit speeds shouldn't be an issue.
Right now I am in Kerala and with my BSNL 50 Mbps connection, this is what I get through a droplet in DO Bangalore from various servers.
The Germany one, I think connectivity from DigitalOcean itself isn't so great, so the speeds are a bit less. The tests to Bangalore and Singapore shows that ZeroTier itself doesn't add much of an over head.
This is a base install, launched a VM, installed ZeroTier, setup IP masquerade and configured ZeroTier to use the DO box as the default gateway on the client.
I think a DO droplet should be able to do 100 mbps provided you have connectivity to/from DO (or to whichever cloud provider you use) and can achieve those speeds if you remove ZeroTier.
Is there any alternative to Zerotier or any linux way to have connectivity among multiple systems if the main system cant be port-forwarded because of ISP's restriction/infra.
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