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Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by notyourwork »

syntaxing wrote: post #15

I really like “bring your home everywhere aspect”. I can be a pain connecting my whole family devices to another SSID. If it can do WiFi repeating (as in login to a single hotel account and stream to rest of device), I would absolutely get one. If not, GL inet is still the way to go

Can GL inet not do that? Genuinely asking.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by tguvot »

notyourwork wrote: post #21
syntaxing wrote: post #15

I really like “bring your home everywhere aspect”. I can be a pain connecting my whole family devices to another SSID. If it can do WiFi repeating (as in login to a single hotel account and stream to rest of device), I would absolutely get one. If not, GL inet is still the way to go

Can GL inet not do that? Genuinely asking.

can do it

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by shermantanktop »

walterbell wrote: post #8
cromka wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The way it automatically connects to your home and presents to your devices as part of your home WiFi. So you bring that device with you and everything else works like you're back home. I use OPNSense and OpenWRT myself and there's no way you can make travel routers this convenient with them.

> presents to your devices as part of your home WiFi That will be fun for browser geolocation based on WiFi name.

In a 1 bit environment (==single SSID visible), sure. But most of the time multiple SSIDs are visible, and correlate to each, making detection of abnormalities easier. And the lat/long is also visible to help disambiguate.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by dangus »

slig wrote: post #11
makestuff wrote: post #5

It seems like the main feature is being able to access your home network to watch netflix, access LAN devices, etc. How is this different compared to running a tailscale exit node in your home network? Is the benefit of this that you have a hardware device that you can connect to instead of needing software like tailscale?

I have a hard time believing anyone would actually use this versus self-hosting headscale in a discarded ThinkCentre and running it from a closet.

I run OpnSense, Wireguard, hooked up to third party WiFi access points, and I had to do a lot of configuration and work that I wouldn't have had to do if I had just bought Ubiquiti equipment.

I did save money, a really significant amount of money.

Obviously, yes, I am capable of going through the work that eliminates my need for this product. I have no trouble configuring Wireguard and setting it up on my client devices and running through all that.

But it was a lot of work to get to this point and I had to spend a lot of time learning how to do that, even as a person who is already technical. Wireguard in particular took me a solid half a day to build understanding and get it configured.

If I was a little bit richer and I went back in time I'd probably just buy all Unifi. Actually if I went back in time I think with my same levels of wealth I'd probably just buy Unifi and save some precious time.

This specific device does seem like a really nice extension of their product line.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by WillPostForFood »

theoreticalmal wrote: post #19
wateralien wrote: post #2

I never travel without my GL-AXT1800. Saved me so many times: https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-axt1800/ I’m actually on it right now.

What is the benefit of this over, for example, an iPhone hotspot?

An iPhone can't bridge a wifi network. So you need something like a travel router to share a wifi connection.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by WillPostForFood »

allovertheworld wrote: post #20

whats the point of this? I got wireguard on my phone connected to my home network (also unifi). If this device had a 5g sim slot, then I could see the point but it’s not that.

The main benefit of a travel router is creating a private network, and sharing a wifi connection. An iPhone can't do that, though Android phones can.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by nerdix »

saagarjha wrote: post #17

Available December 29th: https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/utr

Wifi 5 for an $80 router in 2026 (I mean we're almost there) is pretty disappointing. I get that its mostly going to be used on crappy hotel networks and the crappy hotel network will often be the bottleneck but $80 looks to be roughly twice the price of the typical travel wifi 5 travel router, about equal to the price of a typical wifi 6 travel router, and only $30-40 cheaper than a typical wifi 7 travel router.

I don't mind a unifi premium for the integration but they should at least have a $50 wifi 5 version and a $100 wifi 6 "pro" version

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by teeray »

notyourwork wrote: post #21
syntaxing wrote: post #15

I really like “bring your home everywhere aspect”. I can be a pain connecting my whole family devices to another SSID. If it can do WiFi repeating (as in login to a single hotel account and stream to rest of device), I would absolutely get one. If not, GL inet is still the way to go

Can GL inet not do that? Genuinely asking.

Can confirm. It also has a mode to jump through the captive portal. I just set it up with the same SSID and PSK as my home wifi and everything we bring connects automatically. It also routes everything through Tailscale.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by pyrolistical »

syntaxing wrote: post #15

I really like “bring your home everywhere aspect”. I can be a pain connecting my whole family devices to another SSID. If it can do WiFi repeating (as in login to a single hotel account and stream to rest of device), I would absolutely get one. If not, GL inet is still the way to go

? You just need to set it up once and devices will auto reconnect by default
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