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Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by jpgvm »

jtokoph wrote: post #358
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

This one has eSIM and dual physical SIM support.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by underdeserver »

bronco21016 wrote: post #313
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.

It's really dependent upon the expected downtime at the hotel for me. I do about 150 nights in hotels a year. Some of those trips I'll have extended time of 18+ hours of not really doing anything outside of the hotel other than grabbing dinner. For those types of trips I'm definitely more apt to bring additional devices like my GLinet travel router and MAYBE a streaming stick. I've also brought RPis or MCUs for tinke…

Jesus, that's a lot of away time. What do you do?

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by MrDarcy »

benoau wrote: post #359
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/

For both home and travel routers OpenWRT is far and away superior to Unifi gear. Usability, configurability, and especially security.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by smileybarry »

All the videos I've seen show it adopted by an existing UniFi site, I wonder if I can still set it up as a standalone device? Hopefully even set up the VPN functionality to some WireGuard server (which was implied somewhere where it listed OpenVPN & WireGuard, can't find it now).

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Post by InTheArena »

smileybarry wrote: post #374

All the videos I've seen show it adopted by an existing UniFi site, I wonder if I can still set it up as a standalone device? Hopefully even set up the VPN functionality to some WireGuard server (which was implied somewhere where it listed OpenVPN & WireGuard, can't find it now).

You’re probably better off getting a GL device. They already have support.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by InTheArena »

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/

Ubiquidropped all cloud requirements, but I am not sure what you are referring too here.

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by hypercube33 »

klinquist wrote: post #332
afavour wrote: post #298

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I have a dedicated travel AppleTV for this. AppleTV is great at hotel captive portals (forwarding the web page to your phone). I am already logged into all my streaming apps, including my home DVR (ChannelsDVR).

Sounds interesting but I assume only if you have an iPhone and both are tied to an account?

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Post by brewdad »

kstrauser wrote: post #319
guiambros wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same! And the best thing is that you can install Tailscale, so you can connect to your tailnet, and exit all traffic through one of your nodes (e.g., your home/office network). It's incredibly useful, with the added bonus that you don't need to install tailscale client in any of your travel devices (phone, tablet, work computer, etc).

We’re from the US but were recently in Germany. Sometimes we were completely exhausted after a long day and just wanted to rest in our room a little before going to sleep. Our motel had like 2 English speaking channels and both sucked. We watched a lot of German TV because it was interesting, even if we could barely understand what was going on. After some time doing that, it was a pleasure watching some Hulu, courte…

I did the same thing recently while visiting family in SE Asia. I wanted to watch my team's bowl game but American college football is unknown in that part of the world. A Wireguard connection back to my home router gave me the ESPN access I pay for in the US.

A few services didn't work because they required my mobile device's location services (which still showed my in Asia). I'm sure I could have found a workaround for that but wasn't properly motivated to put in the effort for a short visit.

In a similar vein, I was able to troubleshoot a problem with our NAS from a cellular connection on a boat near Bali a couple years ago. My son needed access to some files for his college homework but couldn't access it remotely. I was able to access it and reconfigure a setting that had changed during an update and restore his access.

The internet feels like magic sometimes.

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Post by mootothemax »

jpgvm wrote: post #371
jtokoph wrote: post #358

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

This one has eSIM and dual physical SIM support.

I’m really struggling to understand the SIM side, the page talks about 5G while tethered to a phone?

Re: Unifi Travel Router

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Post by brewdad »

einarfd wrote: post #228
mi_lk wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you know what’s the technical term to search if a phone has that capability? Asking for an iPhone

My iPhone calls it personal hotspot.

It's my understanding that personal hotspot can only utilize the cellular connection for the internet side since the wifi connection is being used to connect clientside. If one is hoping to use hotel wifi rather than their cellular plan data, Apple's solution won't work.

I'd be happy to be proven wrong on this however.

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