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Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by jasonkester »

konradb wrote: post #224
jasonkester wrote: post #191

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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?

> 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? If you go to https://tailscale.com/pricing?plan=personal The first plan on the left called 'Personal' is free. It uses a central orchestrator which is what requires you to sign up. If you prefer to self host your orchestrator you can look into Headscale, an alternative that seeks…

Ugh. On mobile, the first plan on the pricing page is “ starter” for $6. The plan to the right is partly visible, indicating that you can scroll that way. There’s nothing to indicate that you can scroll left.

A less hostile website design would have (again) saved me a question.

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Post by Brajeshwar »

This is brilliant, especially if you are already invested in the Ubiquiti/UniFi Ecosystem. There was a UniFi Teleport, and I think that function is now part of this Travel Router. From the video and the images, I believe this can also be added to a car act as a family wi-fi on the move.

I’ve always had a Pocket Travel Router (along with a thin but long enough RJ45 cable) with me while traveling, starting with the D-Link AC750 Travel Router. It does away with Wi-Fi Change, and all of your devices just continue to work, no worry about syncing, file-transfers, etc. A travel router becomes even more convenient when traveling with the family.

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Post by SXX »

aembleton wrote: post #219
PeterStuer wrote: post #202

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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.

Yes, but it wont work for sharing mobile internet because VPN doee not apply to tethering unless you have root. On Android there is also WiFi direct, but it's not very reliable and require proxy / not work for everything.

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Post by hhh »

weinzierl wrote: post #226
jasonkester wrote: post #179

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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,…

Extending the question: In my mind Tailscale was primarily to expose local services but answers here sound a bit as if people used it as a VpN replacement. If I do not want to expose local services but only protect me and hide from untrusted WiFi, would I better use a traditional VPN or Tailscale? My thinking is that Tailscale could be the better VPN because they have a clean business model while pure VPN companies a…

Tailscale is an enterprise vpn, connecting multiple of your networks, where as consumer vpns just make your network traffic exit from their network.

I run a tailscale exit node on an anonymous vps provider to give me a similar experience to a consumer vpn.

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Post by amaccuish »

vidarh wrote: post #220
normie3000 wrote: post #123

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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".

I think it's the other way around? Most UK networks seem to charge charge now (the big ones anyway, EE, Vodafone etc.).

At least in Germany, none of our networks do.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by jasoncartwright »

tonymet wrote: post #31

I clone my home WiFi SSID with my travel router so when we arrive at the hotel all of our devices auto connect without having to configure the consent / captive WiFi screen. It’s also nice to control VPN and DNS from one place , in case the hotel is doing DNS or IP filtering. And quite a few hotels still offer wired Ethernet , which helps performance.

Hotel wifi is often hilariously slow compared to plugging my travel router into an in-room ethernet socket. From spotty Makes video conferencing and large downloads usable.

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Post by walthamstow »

KnuthIsGod wrote: post #180
jasonkester wrote: post #179

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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.

It's also P2P mesh rather than hub and spoke which is quite important

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Post by elAhmo »

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…

Is there really much difference between Wifi 5, 6, 7, especially when travelling given relatively limited speeds you might find yourself in?

I don't even know what is my Wifi "version" at none of the places I have my routers, things just work for all purposes (work, gaming, streaming).

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Post by ssl-3 »

copperx wrote: post #208
xgbi wrote: post #164

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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 (?)

Maybe, maybe not.

Some companies aren't very big, and neither are their budgets. And of course, it might be said that there is no solution more permanent than a temporary one.

We've got a large-ish color laser printer (IIRC, an HP 4600) at one of our locations. It's not a big place; it has only had as many as 3 people working there regularly and has been normally staffed by exactly 1 person for the last several years.

When we moved into that building, a missing link was noticed: The printer did not feature wifi, and there was no way to get a clean ethernet drop to it without visible external conduit. The boss man didn't like the idea of conduit.

To get it working for now, I went over to Wal-Mart and bought whatever the current rev of Linksys WRT54G was. I put some iteration of Tomato on it so it could operate in station mode and graft the printer into the wifi network.

I plugged that blue Linksys box in back in 2007; it turned 18 years old this year.

It's pretty little slow by modern wifi standards, and the 2.4GHz band is much more congested than it used to be, but: It still works, and nobody seems motivated to spend money to implement a better solution... so it remains.

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