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Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by jasonkester »

konradb wrote: post #182
jasonkester wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m seeing a lot of this same comment here, so I went to check out this tailscale thing, which clearly I must need. Can anybody explain what Tailscale is, does, or why everybody seems to have it? Looking at their website, it’s just a huge wall of business jargon. Really! Read it. It’s nothing but a list of enterprise terminology. There’s a “how it works “ page full of more (different) jargon, acronyms and buzzwords,…

I don't think you need to pay $6 a month to try it out. Install it on all the machines you want. When you are running it on the machine, it is networked to the other machines that are running it. Now make an 'exit node' on one of those machines by selecting it in the UI, and all your gear can access the internet via that exit node. Your phone can run it. Your apple tv can run it. You can have multiple exit nodes. So…

So, somewhere on that website, there’s a free version that can be downloaded onto a desktop and run without signing up for their service?

I think I understand what it does now. So, basically you leave a computer running at home, and this thing lets you pretend to be running your internet stuff through it while you’re on the road?

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by easyKL »

Please also consider the GL-iNEt Puli (XE300): - 5V 2A USB C connector and a 5000mAh battery - SIM and [not tested by myself] eSIM support. - Tailscale and Nebula available as a plug-in. - Main network and guest network can be set. - OpenWRT if you want the GL-iNET firmware.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by wateralien »

copperx wrote: post #188
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.

Do you mind expounding on how it has saved you? I'd love to know the practical use cases.

While on a scuba diving trip in Thailand a couple months ago we could position the router slightly outside our hotel room to be able to be able to strongly connect to the very dodgy hotel wifi so my girlfriend could do her work calls.

It would also automatically log into the captive wifi which seemed to require a login every hour or so.

Another time we Ethernet into it using the cable in another hotel to bypass some ridiculous speed limitations on their access point.

I'm considering getting their model which can take SIM cards, so that we can also failover to mobile networks wherever we are.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by wateralien »

hnburnsy wrote: post #52
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.

Have you tried hooking it up to an Ethernet port in a hotel room like the one that the TV uses?

I've had success hooking it up to some Ethernet cables in hotels, but it's 50/50.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by PeterStuer »

jasonkester wrote: post #179
guiambros wrote: post #78

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Same! And the best thing is that you can install Tailscale, so you can connect to your tailnet, and exit all traffic through one of your nodes (e.g., your home/office network). It's incredibly useful, with the added bonus that you don't need to install tailscale client in any of your travel devices (phone, tablet, work computer, etc).

I’m seeing a lot of this same comment here, so I went to check out this tailscale thing, which clearly I must need. Can anybody explain what Tailscale is, does, or why everybody seems to have it? Looking at their website, it’s just a huge wall of business jargon. Really! Read it. It’s nothing but a list of enterprise terminology. There’s a “how it works “ page full of more (different) jargon, acronyms and buzzwords,…

A system by wich you can expose things on your private network (e.g. your home lan) so you can selectively and securely make them accesible from other places (e.g. over the Internet). You can do all this without tailscale by just configuring secure encrypted tunnels (wireshark, traefic, ...) yourself, but services like tailscale provide you with easy gui configuration for that.

I personally use Pangolin, which is similar https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by npodbielski »

jasonkester wrote: post #179
guiambros wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same! And the best thing is that you can install Tailscale, so you can connect to your tailnet, and exit all traffic through one of your nodes (e.g., your home/office network). It's incredibly useful, with the added bonus that you don't need to install tailscale client in any of your travel devices (phone, tablet, work computer, etc).

I’m seeing a lot of this same comment here, so I went to check out this tailscale thing, which clearly I must need. Can anybody explain what Tailscale is, does, or why everybody seems to have it? Looking at their website, it’s just a huge wall of business jargon. Really! Read it. It’s nothing but a list of enterprise terminology. There’s a “how it works “ page full of more (different) jargon, acronyms and buzzwords,…

It just virtual private network.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by arcanemachiner »

jasonkester wrote: post #190
gertrunde wrote: post #186

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Basic version is it's a sort of developer focused zero trust network service. Encrypted overlay network based on wireguard tunnels, with network ACLs based around identity, and with lots of nice quality-of-life features, like DNS that just works and a bunch of other stuff. (Other stuff = internet egress from your tailscale network ('tailnet') through any chosen node, or feeding inbound traffic from a public IP to a c…

I can’t tell if you’re trying to help, or just getting into the spirit of the website’s “how it works (using ten pages of terminology and acronyms we just made up)” page.

Your ignorance of the topic is no excuse to be rude to someone who's trying to help you.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by Lammy »

jasonkester wrote: post #179
guiambros wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same! And the best thing is that you can install Tailscale, so you can connect to your tailnet, and exit all traffic through one of your nodes (e.g., your home/office network). It's incredibly useful, with the added bonus that you don't need to install tailscale client in any of your travel devices (phone, tablet, work computer, etc).

I’m seeing a lot of this same comment here, so I went to check out this tailscale thing, which clearly I must need. Can anybody explain what Tailscale is, does, or why everybody seems to have it? Looking at their website, it’s just a huge wall of business jargon. Really! Read it. It’s nothing but a list of enterprise terminology. There’s a “how it works “ page full of more (different) jargon, acronyms and buzzwords,…

It's a cryptographic key exchange system that allows nodes to open Wireguard tunnels between each other. They have a nice product, but I don't like how it spies on your “private” network by default: https://tailscale.com/kb/1011/log-mesh-traffic

If you want to self-host, use NetBird instead.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by viccis »

jasonkester wrote: post #190
gertrunde wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basic version is it's a sort of developer focused zero trust network service. Encrypted overlay network based on wireguard tunnels, with network ACLs based around identity, and with lots of nice quality-of-life features, like DNS that just works and a bunch of other stuff. (Other stuff = internet egress from your tailscale network ('tailnet') through any chosen node, or feeding inbound traffic from a public IP to a c…

I can’t tell if you’re trying to help, or just getting into the spirit of the website’s “how it works (using ten pages of terminology and acronyms we just made up)” page.

None of the terminology or acronyms that user used were made up or unique to this. I think you are blaming other people for your unfamiliarity with this kind of tech.

It is simply a managed service that lets you hook devices up to an overlay network, in which they can communicate easily with each other just as though they were on a LAN even if they are far apart.

For example, if you have a server you'd like to be able to SSH into on your home network, but you don't want to expose it to the internet, you can add both it and your laptop to a Tailscale network and then your laptop can connect directly to it over the Tailscale network no different than if you were at home.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by supersparrow »

ec109685 wrote: post #156
qmr wrote: post #111

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Really what you should be doing is setting the SSID to "$2 in flight WiFi!" and selling access. You'll make tens of ... dollars every flight.

Airlines throttle per device, unfortunately.

These travel routers have an option to impersonate the device you are using to get round this.
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