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Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by Moldoteck »

apexalpha wrote: post #266
barrkel wrote: post #261

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

2 - without prior config only a bunch can do it, like pixels 3 - there's a difference - you can configure wg/ts on a single device(router) and it's done, or you need to do it on 5X+ devices, phones and laptops and fix the configs on all if something changes

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Post by kstrauser »

shibapuppie wrote: post #294
hnburnsy wrote: post #287

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I've read the GL.inet can easily clone the TV Mac, pretty cool.

That won't help you if they use 802.1X.

I’ve never seen that in a motel. It’s a lot of extra network expense to cover something very few people would ever think about.

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Post by libria »

baggy_trough wrote: post #55

I need something like this to share a single wifi connection among devices on a cruise. I don't care about the home network access though. Any recommendations?

There are variants of this kind that double as and look like a battery charger (which you should claim) but can also repeat and NAT a wireless signal (which you should helpfully omit). Rumor says mudiv2 but I've never used that so can't confirm.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by matwood »

QuiEgo wrote: post #300
apexalpha wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people spend 100+ days a year in hotels.

I did 82 days last year. Everyone travels different, but for me I feel like any time I spend watching TV in the hotel is wasted time - I'm in a whole other city, surely there's something I can do? The hotel is just somewhere to take a shower and sleep. I don't watch much TV in general though so I guess it's easier for me.

I’m with you, I just turn on Bloomberg and leave it there. When I travel for work, I work all day (some client meetings ant night) and either work out at night or in the morning depending on time zone. Then I enjoy just walking around the city a bit and then sleep.

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Post by nunez »

bnc319 wrote: post #48

So… hear me out. Could I connect this to an airline’s paid in-flight WiFi network, and then broadcast an open network to effectively open up access to all other passengers for free? If enough WiFi pirates do this on flights perhaps it would kill paid WiFi entirely (just need enough Good Samaritans) (And yes I know there are other bypasses you can do like spoofing MAC addresses to get around some device count restrict…

Yes

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by kstrauser »

j45 wrote: post #126
nerdix wrote: post #28

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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…

It’s wifi 5 but the most interesting part is it uses 5w of power max, I thought it’d be more.

That’s a lot of power for a radio you’re right next to. You don’t need 100W to stream Netflix.

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Post by kstrauser »

MobileVet wrote: post #89
firecall wrote: post #59

>while captive portal logins on hotel networks are handled quietly in the background. Anyone know how it automagically sorts out connecting to the hotel WiFi? Hotels often want some combination of my room number and surname I've found, or some combination of hotel name and floor password.

Took my PS5 Pro on a work trip. Was livid to find out the horrific 'browser' on the PS5 wasn't able to handle the captive portal login page. $700 gaming rig and it can't load a simple HTML page so I can enter my name and room number?! Ridiculous. Thought about it for a few minutes and realized that the portal was likely just doing mac filtering. So I adjusted my MacBook Pro's MAC address to be the same as the PS5, we…

This is the way. Nice job!

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by DetectDefect »

ec109685 wrote: post #159
DetectDefect wrote: post #82

Have Ubiquiti/Unifi firmware/devices ever been subject to independent, third-party security testing? Surely a company charging such a premium for high-end devices has invested in such processes and is proud to showcase them ...

You should overlay something else rather than rely on WiFi securiry. Tailscale or a vpn, private cloud or just tls, depending on your threat model.

None of those would not prevent someone owning your device because the firmware has vulnerabilities.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by libria »

afavour wrote: post #298
QuiEgo wrote: post #288

When I travel, I like carrying as little as possible. These comments are fascinating to me, people are brining more devices than I have in my whole house and needing to make a LAN for them. Personally I just connect my phone to WiFi and then use Tailscale and call it a day.

Plenty of us travel with family! I also think the variable state of hotel TVs is a factor even when travelling alone. Being able to plug your own device into the HDMI is valuable.

My "family" is multiple devices. M networks (hotel, airport, lounge) and N devices means O(M * N) wifi setups, so carrying a known 200g router means I only have to do O(M+N) setups.

But yeah I also have P family so O(M * P * N) would be a headache.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by ryandrake »

QuiEgo wrote: post #309
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,…

It's a wrapper around Wireguard that lets you use common SSO providers (Apple ID, Google, etc) to manage access. It also handles looking up the IP address of your "nodes" through their servers, so you don't need to host a domain/dns to find the WAN IP of your home network when you're external to it (this is assuming you don't pay for a fixed IP). Most people put an instance of it on a home server or NAS, and then the…

I was still completely mystified until your last sentence. And now I'm just mostly mystified. I, too, keep hearing Tailscale Tailscale Tailscale from HN commenters but have no idea why I'd need it. For anything I need to access on (or from) my home network I just use a VPN I've hosted in my home for the last decade or so.
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