Tuesday, December 9, 2025

RustDesk and Tailscale

I'm an Anydesk guy. I tried RustDesk and it was fine but I didn't feel that their servers were as fast as Anydesk. Rust encourages setting up your own server which is more work than I wanted. With Tailscale you can establish a direct link between the two PCs through an encrypted Wireguard tunnel. This should be the game changer.

The LoL part. I suppose Anydesk can be connected through Tailscale. I do like the thought of open-source RustDesk so I'm trying both.

winget install --id=Tailscale.Tailscale -e   
winget install --id=RustDesk.RustDesk -e   

Set up a Tailscale account.

Set up RustDesk on the Host PC - Go to security, unlock and enable ip connections.
It's so easy I'm not spending more time explaining now.

Caviot: Keep Anydesk active. I had to use it to stop and start the Tailscale service today. Don't know why so time will tell. The speed is worth it. an iperf test maxed out the upload from the office.
Can't wait to get to my Florida 1GB fiber and run the test from there.

Iperf windows version must be used and run from the command line to work.
Download the iperf for windows folder
Open CMD admin in that folder and run

On office
iperf3.exe -s -p 5202

On laptop
one stream
iperf3.exe -c <REMOTE_TS_IP> -p 5202 -t 10

multiple streams
iperf3.exe -c 100.113.117.66 -p 5202 -t 15 -P 4


I was working with Copilot first and then Gemini with this iperf test. Its a little crazy with these guys. They give you Powershell, Windows Command Shell and WSL Bash commands to use. I've learned to appreciate Terminal. I can have all three tabs open in one program and jump back and forth. I now know why WSL Ubuntu is useful. I just had it enabled out of curiosity.

RustDesk and Tailscale

I'm an Anydesk guy. I tried RustDesk and it was fine but I didn't feel that their servers were as fast as Anydesk. Rust encourages s...