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They still tie you to Google?
Microsoft, Github, and Apple login are the other options if you don't want to use Google.
I never travel without my GL-AXT1800. Saved me so many times: https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-axt1800/ I’m actually on it right now.
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I run OpnSense, Wireguard, hooked up to third party WiFi access points, and I had to do a lot of configuration and work that I wouldn't have had to do if I had just bought Ubiquiti equipment. I did save money, a really significant amount of money. Obviously, yes, I am capable of going through the work that eliminates my need for this product. I have no trouble configuring Wireguard and setting it up on my client devi…
The catch is figuring out what's going to stick around and what won't. I have a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite that's a little over ten years old. At the time, it was revolutionary in its ability to pump a whole lot of data over a cheap device with a lot of features - but a lot of those features weren't available in the GUI at all; you had to go CLI and learn Vyatta (of which it was a fork) to do them. It's been updated ov…
I ended up with the OpnSense box plus Zyxel APs. The Nebula cloud offering has been surprisingly good for me: it offers plenty of features in the free tier and the APs don’t actually need the cloud service to be configured if it were to be discontinued.
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The catch is figuring out what's going to stick around and what won't. I have a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite that's a little over ten years old. At the time, it was revolutionary in its ability to pump a whole lot of data over a cheap device with a lot of features - but a lot of those features weren't available in the GUI at all; you had to go CLI and learn Vyatta (of which it was a fork) to do them. It's been updated ov…
What I didn’t like about TP-Link Omada was their weird requirement for a separate controller hardware thing, or running a controller server thing. If I remember right. I ended up with the OpnSense box plus Zyxel APs. The Nebula cloud offering has been surprisingly good for me: it offers plenty of features in the free tier and the APs don’t actually need the cloud service to be configured if it were to be discontinued…
I have a hardware controller, but I will probably end up putting it in my in-laws’ house because software is fine for where I live. I actually set the whole thing up via software controller and transferred the config when it was all set and I would only be making small changes.
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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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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.
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Not sure if anybody gives you the answer to "what is tailscale?". So, this is my answer (hopefully it's correct and simple enough to understand). Tailscale allows devices that can access the Internet (no matter how they access the Internet) to see each other. To do that, you create a tailscale network for yourself, then connect your devices to that network, then your devices can see each other. Other devices that are…
So a VPN?
Nothing that a network guru or even a sufficiently motivated hacker couldn’t do on their own, except that the maintenance is practically zero for the personal user and it’s actually easy enough for a very nontechnical person to use (not necessarily to set up, but to use), perhaps with a bit of coaching over the phone. Want to use a different exit point for your traffic? It’s a dropdown list. Share a file? Requires one config step on the client for macOS, once, and then it’s just in the share menu. Windows, Android, iOS are ready to go without that. Share whole directories? Going to require some command-line setup once per shared directory, but not after that.
There are features that are much more enterprise-focused and not as useful for personal stuff, but everything above is in the free version.
I’m not in tech at all, professionally, and never have been. I’m savvy for an end user - I can install Linux or a BSD, I can set up a network, I can install a VPN myself to get back to my home network - but I would never, ever call myself anything more than an interested layman. I probably could figure most of this out on my own, if I had to. Thing is, I don’t have to. It’s more than just Wireguard in a pretty wrapper.
Try it. It won’t take long to figure out why so many people here like it, even if you may not want to use it.
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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 managemen…
That’s such an elegant way of putting it that they should use it in their marketing.