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Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by seabrookmx »

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.

I install tailscale on my laptop. I then install tailscale on a desktop PC I have stashed in a closet at my parents. If they are both logged in to the same tailnet, I can access that desktop PC from my home without any addition network config (no port forwarding on my parents router, UPNP, etc. etc).

I like to think of it as a software defined LAN.

Wireguard is just the transport protocol but all the device management and clever firewall/NAT traversal stuff is the real special sauce.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by matt-p »

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 think every single pixel I've ever had could share wifi or 4g/5g.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by matt-p »

chrisan wrote: post #252
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

we take a webcam to keep eye on dogs sometimes. I use a travel router for that

This is a really fair example.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by matt-p »

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?

2,3 and 4 android can do. 1 is very fair but could be achieved with an old phone, maybe with a rubbish battery plugged in.

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Post by overfeed »

libria wrote: post #329
afavour wrote: post #298

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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.

If your home WiFi uses PSK auth like 99.223% of all homes, you can get to 0 setups by using the same WiFi SSID+PSK on your travel router as the one on your home network.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by afavour »

QuiEgo wrote: post #303
afavour wrote: post #298

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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.

Fair enough, I get the TV for kids thing. For me, I can't remember the last time I used a hotel TV. When I travel, I want to do stuff at the place I'm visiting, the hotel room is just a place to sleep and shower. If I do want to watch something, I much prefer the experience of my much nicer TV and surround sound system at home. That said, I don't watch much TV, so maybe this is easier for me. If I have downtime when…

> For me, I can't remember the last time I used a hotel TV. When I travel, I want to do stuff at the place I'm visiting, the hotel room is just a place to sleep and shower.

Again, really depends on what kind of travel you’re doing. What you’re describing sounds like leisure travel, which is awesome. But travel for work is often very different. You’re exhausted from a days work and you’re also often staying in very uninspiring places with little to explore.

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Post by rynn »

Lammy wrote: post #198
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 cryptographic key exchange system that allows nodes to open Wireguard tunnels between each other. They have a nice product, but I don't like how it spies on your “private” network by default: https://tailscale.com/kb/1011/log-mesh-traffic If you want to self-host, use NetBird instead.

Where spies == logging and they tell you, and provide clear opt out instructions

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by jtokoph »

fmajid wrote: post #345

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/

I’ve been waiting for one of these with built in eSIM support

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by benoau »

fmajid wrote: post #345

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/

I have a little WIFI-6 era GL.iNet travel router and it is fantastic, really like their software and hardware.

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-axt1800/

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