it says travel but not supporting LTE/5G
Yea if this had 5g it would be worth it
Unifi Travel Router
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Re: Unifi Travel Router
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Android phones can share their wifi connection like this.
(some android phones: my Pixel can, Samsung can't, although it seems that other Samsungs do have it.)
I installed another app on my S10 to enable this. It's called "Wi-Fi Hotspot" and it works pretty well
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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,…
It's a virtual network switch/router with DHCP, DNS, and lots more enterprisey features on top. You 'plug' devices into it using a VPN connection.
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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,…
Basically it is managed Wireguard. Tailscale does say it, but it is buried under marketing speak.
This. People are doing the same thing that OP mentioned in this thread.
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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.
And get arrested to boot! https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/man-arrested-for-sett...
Ok Lol but they got arrested for stealing others people data not for making a wifi on the flight. That's different.
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#216Please 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.
I am running a Netgear Nighthawk when I am on the road. But the Mubi7 looks interesting - I would not want to go back from 5G to a slower networks, sorry :)
Re: Unifi Travel Router
#217Please 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.
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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 i…
> But notice how you just did a much better job of explaining what this thing does without using any jargon at all.
There was plenty of jargon and acronyms like LAN and SSH. You're just used to those ones.
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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.
If my phone has a VPN to my home server, then it should all be encrypted.
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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?
UK is not included, but most UK mobile networks have chosen to pretend the UK hasn't to their customers, and offer similar amounts of voice and data in the EEA, so it still mostly works "one way".