Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Unifi Travel Router

blog.ui.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

261–270 of 437 posts

Re: Unifi Travel Router

#261

Post by barrkel »

matt-p wrote: post #248

I never really understand why you'd rather have one of these over just enabling "hotspot" on your phone. Ethernet is the only reason I can think of

What if you want your kid(s) and/or partner(s) to stay connected after you leave the hotel room with your phone?

What if you want to use the hotel's internet connection instead of your roaming data?

What if you want to use wireguard or tailscale to funnel all traffic through your home network?

What if you want to enable your family's devices to connect to your self-hosted services?

Re: Unifi Travel Router

#262

Post by __jonas »

weinzierl wrote: post #226
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,…

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…

> In my mind Tailscale was primarily to expose local services

You might be thinking of tailscale funnel:

https://tailscale.com/kb/1223/funnel

Which is nice, but still a beta feature. Tailscale itself is indeed a mesh VPN that lets you connect all your devices together.

> 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?

It does NOT by default route all your internet traffic through one of its servers in order to hide it from your ISP, like the type of VPN you might be thinking of (Mullvad, ProtonVPN etc.).

Though you CAN make it route all the traffic from one of your devices through another, which they call an 'Exit Node'. They also have an integration with Mullvad, which allows you to use Mullvad servers as an exit node. Doing that would be identical to just using Mullvad though.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

#263

Post by dewey »

atonse wrote: post #49
elteto wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Problem is that I think my Apple TV goes into some sort of deep idle mode where tailscale stops working. So it’s been effectively useless for me when I travel.

Never had that, and I use that feature often.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

#264

Post by antonkochubey »

niklasrde wrote: post #207
xp84 wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“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.…

>Starlink requires airlines to offer it for free

What's the catch?

Re: Unifi Travel Router

#265

Post by ohyoutravel »

AJRF wrote: post #14
lucb1e wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Sure but you need a device on the local network to run Tailscale so it routes to that subnet no?

Re: Unifi Travel Router

#266

Post by apexalpha »

barrkel wrote: post #261
matt-p wrote: post #248

I never really understand why you'd rather have one of these over just enabling "hotspot" on your phone. Ethernet is the only reason I can think of

What if you want your kid(s) and/or partner(s) to stay connected after you leave the hotel room with your phone? What if you want to use the hotel's internet connection instead of your roaming data? What if you want to use wireguard or tailscale to funnel all traffic through your home network? What if you want to enable your family's devices to connect to your self-hosted services?

1. Fair enough.

2. Most Android phones can do this.

3. Android phones can do this.

4. This is just the same question as 3.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

#267

Post by mcsniff »

jasonkester wrote: post #231
konradb wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

It seems like it defaults to Business, which is paid. If you tap "Personal" you'll see the free plan.

Sorry, but try a little harder. Tailscale isn't hostile, but it seems you are -- you claim to think you need it, but don't know what it does and can't put in the effort to determine and foist those inabilities on Tailscale?

I've been using Tailscale for many years now and they have a terrific product.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

#268

Post by ricardobeat »

pityJuke wrote: post #100
gdw2 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Android phones can share their wifi connection like this.

Insane to me that Apple still does not support this.

Is it? I can’t picture a real situation where other devices would prefer connecting to mine, running down its battery, instead of directly to the wifi it’s broadcasting.

Besides, at least where I live, 5G/4G is often faster than shared wifi. I’d be surprised if this is used by more than 0.1% of all users.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

#269

Post by bogwog »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #243
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,…

Sign up for free using Google Sign In. Install the tailscale client on each of your devices. Each device will get an IP address from Tailscale. Think about that like a new LAN address. When you're away from home, you can access your home devices using the Tailscale IP addresses.

So basically wireguard, but you have to pay for it, and you have create an account through Google/Apple/Microsoft/whatever.

Wireguard is not that hard to set up manually. If you've added SSH keys to your Github account, it's pretty much the same thing. Find a youtube video or something, and you're good. You might not even need to install a wireguard server yourself, as some routers have that built in (like my Ubiquity EdgeRouter)

Re: Unifi Travel Router

#270

Post by raw_anon_1111 »

antonkochubey wrote: post #264
niklasrde wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.…

>Starlink requires airlines to offer it for free What's the catch?

Once one airline has it, the other airlines will have to buy it. But Delta is already using another satellites internet service.
Post reply on HN