Pro, Business or Enterprise domains get availability in more datacenters closer to the client.
Does Free with Argo get the same availability as Pro or just the availability of Free?
Where’d you read that? I thought Argo was the same for all users.
There a reference to that here:
I just wanted to know if Argo does change availability.
I believe Argo works the same for everyone.
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The Cloudflare POPs available for a given plan type don’t change with the enablement of Argo. So in Australia for example, I believe it is still the case that those POPs are available on the Business plan and above.
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I had no idea this was a thing.
Well in an ideal world all PoPs (outside China) would be available on most/all plans and over time; I believe that’s our goal. But bandwidth costs in certain regions don’t always allow for that.
Lots of work being done to improve coverage, peering and options for our customers. And I could be wrong on the current status of AU (odds are it isn’t quite as black and white as I stated) but it’s such an evolving thing as our network grows and new PoPs come online.
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Well and now I went and asked (because like I said… fluid). At this point all POPs are apparently available on all plans (except China)… It’s a question of peering decisions by the telcos. So uh… @levi.durfee was more righter than me. 
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Thanks for checking!
You mean for Argo, or for general access as well?
Reading from the previous post I’d guess it’s for everyone, Argo doesn’t seem to change POP availability…
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Setup another CNAME and disable the HTTP Proxy CDN feature there, directing to the name of your Argo Tunnel (Argo Tunnel alias however can still have HTTP Proxy CDN enabled)
Now routes via closest servers within Australia etc. you can see the changes in the bottom left of the below graph. I am using the PRO plan.
Well, even with Argo enabled on Free plan, I’m still being routed via AMS instead of IST. I’m based in Turkey. Tracerouting to 1.1.1.1 and to the website of a friend of mine on Business plan seems to be routed via IST, by the way.
Adding Argo doesn’t change the availability of the POPs to a website…
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Except that it does when I turn off the Cloudflare’s orange switch in DNS. That works then. This makes me think if that orange switch on is really expected behavior. Maybe Cloudflare should route the Argo-enabled hostname to an all-PoPs-enabled IP address, like that resolves in *.cftunnel.com. An alternative would be flattening CNAME in all Argo-enabled hostnames (whether apex or not) + orange switch off.
This disables Cloudflare’s proxy, including Argo and everything other than DNS pointing directly to your IP.
They can’t route traffic over their private backbone cables without proxying your traffic, so this isn’t possible.
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I guess you are missing something.
Cloudflare still fronts my hostname, and works as expected, even if I disable the orange switch with Argo on. dig'ing furthermore shows that it’s now resolving to a CNAME like randomhere.cftunnel.com, instead of the original pair of IP addresses (put in front when orange switch is on) which, I believe, is reserved to Free clients. I’m pretty sure about this seeing the original pair never routes me via IST, or those so-called “premium” PoPs.