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Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by cheeze »

drnick1 wrote: post #53
neither_color wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Run one wireguard server in your home and one client instance on this router and now all of your devices can share the same residential VPN connection. No fraud blocks or extra verifications from your banking apps, no million suspicious login detected from all your social accounts, use your home netflix account, etc. All without your individual devices running a VPN app.

> Run one wireguard server in your home and one client instance on this router and now all of your devices can share the same residential VPN connection. You don't need a "travel router" for this. My phone is permanently connected to my server via Wireguard (so that I can access my files from anywhere). Adding another device just requires adding a peer in the server's config file and can be accomplished very quickly.…

> Adding another device just requires adding a peer in the server's config file and can be accomplished very quickly

Do you need a client to be running on each device?

Even regardless "I just need to edit a config file real quick" is... Way more work than I want to do. Works for someone on hn but I'm imagining trying to show my dad how to do that.

That's the benefit of a travel router.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by a_t48 »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #72
bnc319 wrote: post #48

So… hear me out. Could I connect this to an airline’s paid in-flight WiFi network, and then broadcast an open network to effectively open up access to all other passengers for free? If enough WiFi pirates do this on flights perhaps it would kill paid WiFi entirely (just need enough Good Samaritans) (And yes I know there are other bypasses you can do like spoofing MAC addresses to get around some device count restrict…

That’s not going to be an issue at all domestically soon unless you fly one of the cheapest airlines. Delta has had free WiFi for awhile now as does JetBlue and I believe Southwest. It’s coming soon to AA and United. I fly Delta 99% of the time.

Just got back from several flights with Hawaiian, free Starlink on every one.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by normie3000 »

deanc wrote: post #119
cycomanic wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Europe you have free roaming so it (almost?) never makes sense to get a new sim per country.

To be clear. Within the EU. Not Europe.

EEA, not EU. I had to check as I thought UK was also included. Seems like they left?

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by hakfoo »

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.

I'm not using it for travel, but I got a GL-BE3600 recently and it's surprisingly decent as a home router for my very specific needs.

I wired the desktop PCs in the house, so the only Wi-Fi users are mobiles, a smart TV, and a laptop. Everything else is already hanging off 2.5G wired switches. Pretty light duty, and I just wanted something that would provide robust routing and placeholder Wi-Fi. This does exactly that, and since it's OpenWRT based, it's probably marginally less terrible than whatever TP-Link was offering in the same price range.

It does run annoyingly hot, but I should just buy a little USB desk fan and point it at the router :P

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by gradstudent »

tstrimple wrote: post #73
drnick1 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Run one wireguard server in your home and one client instance on this router and now all of your devices can share the same residential VPN connection. You don't need a "travel router" for this. My phone is permanently connected to my server via Wireguard (so that I can access my files from anywhere). Adding another device just requires adding a peer in the server's config file and can be accomplished very quickly.…

I can accomplish this via one access point instead of configuring wireguard on N*5 family devices.

Why do you need to config wireguard on each device? Connect your phone to your vpn and share the wifi. Works on my android. Struggling to see the value proposition for this device.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by j45 »

nerdix wrote: post #28
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 d…

It’s wifi 5 but the most interesting part is it uses 5w of power max, I thought it’d be more.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by zenonu »

bnc319 wrote: post #48

So… hear me out. Could I connect this to an airline’s paid in-flight WiFi network, and then broadcast an open network to effectively open up access to all other passengers for free? If enough WiFi pirates do this on flights perhaps it would kill paid WiFi entirely (just need enough Good Samaritans) (And yes I know there are other bypasses you can do like spoofing MAC addresses to get around some device count restrict…

Playing with fire. It could be potentially construed as an attempt to steal personal info.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by Onavo »

cromka wrote: post #7
libeclipse wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Innovative how? Many travel routers already exist and support similar features

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.

It probably needs a panic/border mode to disable all home access in the event of an emergency. You don't want to be crossing borders and give customs officials full access to your home network.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by amluto »

hakfoo wrote: post #124
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.

I'm not using it for travel, but I got a GL-BE3600 recently and it's surprisingly decent as a home router for my very specific needs. I wired the desktop PCs in the house, so the only Wi-Fi users are mobiles, a smart TV, and a laptop. Everything else is already hanging off 2.5G wired switches. Pretty light duty, and I just wanted something that would provide robust routing and placeholder Wi-Fi. This does exactly tha…

I've had very impressive success running upstream OpenWRT on TP-Link hardware: I have Archer C7 access points running with literally years of uptime.

That being said, for any new application, I suggest using at least an 802.11ax AP, because cheap 2.4GHz devices that support 802.11ax are becoming common and using an 802.11ac router means that your 2.4GHz devices will be stuck with 802.11n, which is quite a bit less efficient. Even if you don't need any appreciable speed, it's preferable to use a more efficient protocol that uses less airtime.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by xp84 »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #72
bnc319 wrote: post #48

So… hear me out. Could I connect this to an airline’s paid in-flight WiFi network, and then broadcast an open network to effectively open up access to all other passengers for free? If enough WiFi pirates do this on flights perhaps it would kill paid WiFi entirely (just need enough Good Samaritans) (And yes I know there are other bypasses you can do like spoofing MAC addresses to get around some device count restrict…

That’s not going to be an issue at all domestically soon unless you fly one of the cheapest airlines. Delta has had free WiFi for awhile now as does JetBlue and I believe Southwest. It’s coming soon to AA and United. I fly Delta 99% of the time.

“Soon”? Why would they give up that money though? I feel like there’s so little competition they aren’t feeling the pressure. Otherwise everyone else would have been hurting 15+ years ago when JetBlue started their free Wi-Fi.
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