Cloudflare Tunnel added ~260ms vs direct connection (even with Argo routing)

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Hi, I’ve tried 3 different setups for my client and origin server.

Origin: US East datacenter
Client: Munich, Germany datacenter

  1. Direct connection without Cloudflare Tunnel - latency is 91ms

  2. Access the origin via Cloudflare Tunnel (Argo disabled) - latency is 350ms (extra 259ms!)

  3. Access the origin via Cloudflare Tunnel (Argo enabled) - latency is 331ms (only 5.4% improvement)

Why does Cloudflare claim in their website Argo improve performance by average of 30%?

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Can you check which PoPs your tunnel connects?