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Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by jaapz »

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.

That's just networking jargon

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by PeterStuer »

cosmosgenius wrote: post #70
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.

Is this any better than just doing Hotspot with wifi bridge? I just have my hotspot on my pixel for my devices to connect to. Pixel itself is connected to whatever "public wifi" is there.

Your hotspot just makes the untrusted hotel wifi available via your phone wifi. The networks between your computer and your target services can still inspect and alter your data. Tailscale, or more specifically the Wireshark underneat, sets up an encrypted tunnel so those "untrusted" intermediate networks can't do that.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by wateralien »

password4321 wrote: post #79
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 could never figure out which gl-inet to get, since some of the newer products seemed less powerful than older ones depending on the product family or something...

I think the GL-X3000 could be the daddy for power users and any eventuality: https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-x3000/

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by omnimus »

jasonkester wrote: post #191
konradb wrote: post #182

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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?

The service is free up to certain amount of connected people and devices. You most likely don't need to pay for it. I am pretty heavy user and don't. It is virtual private network orchestrator. It allows you to connect to other devices that you add to your network as long as they are connected to the internet. So your office computer, home server or NAS. If you have some home automation like home assistant you can connect to it from anywhere. That kind of stuff.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by asymmetric »

valzam wrote: post #141
gradstudent wrote: post #125

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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.

Do you have a pixel? On Samsung you cannot share WiFi, Hotspot only works with mobile connections. I learners above that this is possible with pixel phones, makes me want to get one...

Same with iPhone, you can only share mobile connection.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by allovertheworld »

WillPostForFood wrote: post #27
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.

Sharing where? All my devices can connect directly thru to Wireguard vpn on my home network. Ipad, iphone, MBP, etc

A 5g phone tethering to your Wireguard connected MBP beats this out of the water

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by niklasrde »

xp84 wrote: post #130
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #72

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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.

Why? Because Starlink. Starlink requires airlines to offer it for free (apparently, for now), and the airlines that have started offering it are making a big deal out of it because it's actually usable compared to a lot of the LEO- or ground-based offerings before.

United was looking to have its regional fleet done by end of this week, Qatar has finished their 777s; Hawaiian's entire fleet is done, so is airBaltic's. WestJet are also close.

British Airways is starting the rollout now, so are SAS, Air France and a few others.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by copperx »

xgbi wrote: post #164
windexh8er wrote: post #34

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I think most travel APs can generally do this, but the feature that makes GL.iNet products popular is: extensibility. I'm not sure why this is so hard to understand for manufacturers, but making products useful via extensibility is a sure fire way to open your target market directly up to prosumers. And those are the buyers that will find you. I own two of their products, one of them I bought in 2019 and can still ru…

My wife’s work WiFi is handled by a gl.inet 150 ( https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-ar150/ ) which is tucked behind her desk since at least 2019. Vanilla openwrt on it, provides WiFi from an Ethernet slot in the wall. Uptime is in years, it’s invisible and chugs along without visible power draw. All her devices connect to it, including her Cisco voip phone. It autossh to my ovh server with remote port forward for r…

Isn't this considered to be "shadow IT"? and some enterprise networking devices have automated detection for such setups, I believe (?)

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by jasonkester »

viccis wrote: post #199
jasonkester wrote: post #190

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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 abl…

Sorry if I appeared rude. That was very much tongue in cheek.

But notice how you just did a much better job of explaining what this thing does without using any jargon at all. The jargon helps if everyone already knows what you’re talking about. It hurts if anyone doesn’t.

That’s what I’m poking fun at. There’s a trait in lots of engineers I’ve worked with over the years to be almost afraid to talk about tech stuff in layman terms. Like they’re worried that someone will think less of them because they used words instead of an acronym. Like they won’t get credit for knowing what a zero trust network is if they describe the concept in a way that regular people might understand.

One of those guys was certainly in charge of this company’s website copy.

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