Do you use guest WiFi?

FordSVTGuy said:
Kind of a straw poll. I recently upgraded the network at my church to Unifi with APs conveniently spread around the building. Today being Easter Sunday I thought it would be a high water test for the system. I was shocked at how few people hopped onto the guest network. When you are out at a familiar spot, do you typically use the free guest WiFi?
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No never unless cellular data speed is so poor/non existent .
 
OVERKILL said:
With the availability of home firewalls like those from Unifi at reasonable prices that can act as an SSL VPN server, I'm not sure why somebody would subscribe to a 3rd party for roadwarrior use unless they are trying to bypass a geofiltering service.
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Does that require you to vpn connect back to your home for any service you want to do out of the house? Or is it an external service that unifi offers to hardware owners?
 
JHZR2 said:
Does that require you to vpn connect back to your home for any service you want to do out of the house? Or is it an external service that unifi offers to hardware owners?
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The first one, it allows you to VPN back to your house, so that your traffic goes through your home firewall.
 
It sounds like a quality work VPN even on open WiFi is protected? The way I understand it is while anyone can see the traffic on any WiFi , a VPN it’s scrambled essentially and only each side can decrypt it.
 
It depends on the work VPN.

Some are setup for split tunneling. They only tunnel what's needed for work applications, rather than tunneling all traffic. If you want a VPN for unsecured networks, it needs to tunnel everything.
 
rijndael said:
It depends on the work VPN.

Some are setup for split tunneling. They only tunnel what's needed for work applications, rather than tunneling all traffic. If you want a VPN for unsecured networks, it needs to tunnel everything.
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Yes, this was implemented for bandwidth-constrained orgs to avoid having to upgrade. With bandwidth being as cheap as it is now, most have moved away from it due to the security advantages, such as the ability to inspect all traffic, control DNS and intercept malicious payloads.
 
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alarmguy said:
@wwillson @OVERKILL
Regarding your comments on VPN's
What are your thoughts if any on Apple's "Private Relay"
It's not "free" but it is included when you pay for extra cloud storage.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102602

https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/25/should-you-use-icloud-private-relay-heres-how-it-works/

https://ioshacker.com/how-to/icloud-private-relay-should-you-turn-it-on

Thoughts? After reading up on it I guess I answered my own question:unsure:
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Yes, I figured you might have, judging by the links. I think we've discussed it before?
 
OVERKILL said:
Yes, I figured you might have, judging by the links. I think we've discussed it before?
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We discussed VPNs in general. But @wwillson made a comment about free VPN.
So I was curious, but then I realized Apple doesn’t call it that they call it private relay

So I assume from what I remember that pretty much it stops my Internet service provider from knowing where I go which denies them the ability to package my information to advertisers. Since I hate my Internet provider, that makes me feel good.🤔

It also masks, my immediate location versus general regional location. That I know definitely works because whenever I go to certain websites that I order products from I always have to change my location from a long way away

Sound about right?
 
alarmguy said:
We discussed VPNs in general. But @wwillson made a comment about free VPN.
So I was curious, but then I realized Apple doesn’t call it that they call it private relay

So I assume from what I remember that pretty much it stops my Internet service provider from knowing where I go which denies them the ability to package my information to advertisers

It also masks, my media location versus general

Sound about right?
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OVERKILL

Post in thread 'TP Link routers possible ban'

alarmguy said:
Yeah, I know. just so you know Im not defending anything. China is our worst enemy. Im just anal and want to see some proof other than the exposures and reporting back to China that every router (almost) has been infected with. They have been talking about banning TP-Link for years but when asked directly, no one has been able to provide proof other than possibilities to ban them. Interestingly even the tech media also hasn't been able to give reasons to ban them and some will continue to just sit on the sidelines waiting for a reason.

Yet almost hypocritically we allow TicTok with...
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OVERKILL said:
OVERKILL

Post in thread 'TP Link routers possible ban'

alarmguy said:
Yeah, I know. just so you know Im not defending anything. China is our worst enemy. Im just anal and want to see some proof other than the exposures and reporting back to China that every router (almost) has been infected with. They have been talking about banning TP-Link for years but when asked directly, no one has been able to provide proof other than possibilities to ban them. Interestingly even the tech media also hasn't been able to give reasons to ban them and some will continue to just sit on the sidelines waiting for a reason.

Yet almost hypocritically we allow TicTok with...
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Oh my, yes, I see that now 😂
 
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