diff --git a/packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/server.py b/packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/server.py
index 45522d9..73114da 100644
--- a/packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/server.py
+++ b/packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/server.py
@@ -5475,7 +5475,7 @@ class _TrackerHandler(http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
             # Prefer a distributed multi-hop route when available. Greedy
             # _select_route alone would pick a single full-shard node and omit
             # partial head shards that share the same port on another host.
-            route = max(candidates, key=lambda cand: len(cand.nodes)).nodes
+            route = max(candidates, key=lambda cand: (len(cand.nodes), cand.prior_tps)).nodes
             error = ""
         else:
             route, error = _select_route(