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Re: Unifi Travel Router

#11

Post by slig »

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.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by elteto »

lucb1e wrote: post #9
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?

How would Tailscale run in your home network without a hardware device to connect to?

Not to take away from this device, I think it’s pretty neat. But you can run tailscale on anything, even Apple TVs. If you have a Unifi network odds are that you have at least one spare computing device that can run tailscale.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

#13

Post by [deleted] »

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?

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Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by AJRF »

lucb1e wrote: post #9
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?

How would Tailscale run in your home network without a hardware device to connect to?

You can create a subnet router on tailscale and access any device on your local network, regardless of them having tailscale installed

Re: Unifi Travel Router

#15

Post by syntaxing »

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

Re: Unifi Travel Router

#16

Post by nickt »

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.

Not sure if you’re serious but reeks of “you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially”

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by kstrauser »

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.

Heartily seconded! A friend recommended I get one and now I push all my other technical friends to buy one, too.

My wife and I traveled a bit this year and it was great having all our gadgets connecting to a single AP under our control. It’s easily paid for itself by avoiding ludicrous per-device daily charges.

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