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Post by devilbunny »

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.

Check the Tailscale blog and docs for AppleTV. ISTR reading about an issue like this popping up and they had a workaround of some sort. Never happened to me.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by jibe »

allovertheworld wrote: post #206
WillPostForFood wrote: post #27

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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

You are in a hotel, you have a wife two kids. So assume 4 phones, 3 laptops, an ipad, and maybe a chromecast. It is faster and easier and more private to use a travel router, connect to wifi, and create a private network than tp connect and authenticate (and possible pay fees) for every device.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by fmajid »

I used to have a UniFi gateway for the nice traffic visualization but Ubiquiti lost my trust when they started running telemetry without consent and I’ve gone back to an OpenBSD’s box as router, thus this device does little for me.

I’m looking forward to the GL.Inet MUDI 7, their first 5G hotspot, which should be running an open-source and hackable OS unlike most hotspots:

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-e5800/

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Post by aftbit »

ryandrake wrote: post #333
rainsford wrote: post #281

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It's not really "basically wireguard" and you don't have to pay for it for personal use. Wireguard is indeed pretty easy to set up, but basic Wireguard doesn't get you the two most significant features of Tailscale, mesh connections and access controls. Tailscale does use Wireguard, but it establishes connections between each of your devices, in many cases these will be direct connections even if the devices in quest…

I guess I'm still not following. Is there an example thing that you can do with Tailscale that you can't do with Wireguard? "Establishes connections between each of your devices" is pretty vague. The Internet can already do that.

You can run two nodes both behind restrictive full cone NATs and have them establish an encrypted connection between each other. You can configure your devices to act as exit nodes, allowing other devices on your "tailnet" to use them to reach the internet. You can set up ACLs and share access to specific devices and ports with other users. If you pay a bit more, you can also use any Mullvad VPN node as an exit point.

Tailscale is "just" managed Wireguard, with some very smart network people doing everything they can to make it go point-to-point even with bad NATs, and offering a free fallback trustless relay layer (called DERP) that will act as a transit provider of last resort.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by master_crab »

jms703 wrote: post #338
malfist wrote: post #290

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I disagree. DNS is generally unencrypted and leaking that over whatever open wifi you're on is generally worse from a privacy perspective than the latency you add bouncing through your home where you probably have encrypted DNS setup. Even if you don't visit any http sites, you never know what might phone home over http, so an OS level VPN provides foolproof privacy at the cost of a tiny bit of latency.

Using encrypted DNS doesn't necessitate routing all your traffic through your home network. You can still encrypt all your traffic by using an encrypted DNS service or, if you really want to, a VPN service. But moving everything through your home network is not necessary, especially if you have any kind of usage caps.

And to further reinforce this point, one of the basic config variables for wireguard is your dns servers. You could literally send no traffic but your dns queries to the wg tunnel.

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Post by ewoodrich »

Moldoteck wrote: post #321
apexalpha wrote: post #266

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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

I've been able to do WiFi-WiFi connection sharing on my last four Samsung phones as well

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by hakfoo »

amluto wrote: post #129
hakfoo wrote: post #124

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I'm not using it for travel, but I got a GL-BE3600 recently and it's surprisingly decent as a home router for my very specific needs. I wired the desktop PCs in the house, so the only Wi-Fi users are mobiles, a smart TV, and a laptop. Everything else is already hanging off 2.5G wired switches. Pretty light duty, and I just wanted something that would provide robust routing and placeholder Wi-Fi. This does exactly tha…

I've had very impressive success running upstream OpenWRT on TP-Link hardware: I have Archer C7 access points running with literally years of uptime. That being said, for any new application, I suggest using at least an 802.11ax AP, because cheap 2.4GHz devices that support 802.11ax are becoming common and using an 802.11ac router means that your 2.4GHz devices will be stuck with 802.11n, which is quite a bit less ef…

I think I actually retired an Archer C7 for this. The goal was something 2.5G ready because the city has systematically rolled out fibre to every neghbourhood around here and I'm just waiting for the knock.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by jimmydoe »

jibe wrote: post #342
jimmydoe wrote: post #335

$79 is over priced, get a GL.iNet Or just go Tailscale

$79 is so cheap that if it saves you 5 min in setup it pays for the difference to a GL.iNet/tailscale setup.

as a frequent traveler, most of my setup time were spent on captive portal. so unless Unifi changes that dramatically, otherwise the time cost is more of less the same.
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