[HN Gopher] Internet in a Box
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       Internet in a Box
        
       Author : madaxe_again
       Score  : 52 points
       Date   : 2020-02-23 11:52 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.revk.uk)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.revk.uk)
        
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       | zamadatix wrote:
       | The power injectors seem superfluous, the 330H and 501 both have
       | standard AC adapters available. Also the 303H isn't directional
       | (page 7 https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/ds/DS_AP303H.pdf) so
       | having one at each end of the case wouldn't be needed if you
       | rearranged things so both sides of the AP had a clear path.
       | 
       | Would be interesting to see the configuration of the FB2900,
       | sounds like there is a lot going on in there!
        
         | walrus01 wrote:
         | Having PoE powered devices often lets you place things in more
         | creative locations, than the need to put things near an AC wall
         | outlet. In certain cruise ship cabins I imagine that optimal
         | placement for wifi signal may not be near where the wall
         | outlets are located.
        
       | dorkwood wrote:
       | I'm finding it a little hard to discern to purpose of this. Is it
       | to circumvent wifi restrictions on a cruise ship?
        
         | dylz wrote:
         | Flight and plane wifi generally charge per device, block things
         | like UDP and ICMP that break the internet, filter and MITM
         | websites, including MITMing HTTPS, only allowing port 80/443,
         | all sorts of horrendous malicious/hostile things.
        
       | FatDrunknStupid wrote:
       | Sorry, couldn't resist posting:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg
        
       | speedgoose wrote:
       | Can't you preload the content you want to watch on Netflix and
       | similar?
        
         | athriren wrote:
         | If you're able to perfectly predict your preferences for every
         | given moment of the period you're on a cruise or in the air in
         | advance, then you could. I find I am unable to do so.
        
       | mnemonicsloth wrote:
       | I write code on the internet every day, and I understood 0% of
       | that article. Abstraction is a powerful thing.
        
         | walrus01 wrote:
         | One of the purposes appears to be to connect to the cruise
         | ship's (expensive) wifi as client, as a single fixed MAC
         | address, and rebroadcast a local wifi signal you control to
         | more than 1 device. Because the cruise company wants you to pay
         | per device.
         | 
         | Also to have a small router you control to monitor the data
         | usage per device, and cumulative data usage on the wifi-WAN-
         | uplink interface. And to establish a whole-router VPN tunnel if
         | you want.
        
         | pmuk wrote:
         | Adrian is very smart! I did a TCP/IP and Firebrick course with
         | him a few (cough over 10) years ago and I learned more in a few
         | days than I did in a year at college.
         | 
         | He set up his own ISP in the UK, and built all the core routers
         | himself, including designing the hardware and writing the
         | router software - see www.firebrick.co.uk
        
       | telesilla wrote:
       | A cell signal booster is also another useful travel companion.
       | Further, if you have the budget, consider a network bonding
       | device such as https://teradek.com/collections/link-pro-family. I
       | use these at trade shows (not this device but something similar)
       | and it's really quite incredible how good service you can get and
       | not have to pay through the nose to the trade show service
       | provider for an ethernet connection.
        
       | rcarmo wrote:
       | Cute. I've resorted to taking a tiny OpenWRT router with me on
       | trips to do pretty much the same (intend to switch to WireGuard
       | on the next trip).
        
         | DividableMiddle wrote:
         | Can you provide more info about your setup?
        
           | rcarmo wrote:
           | Sure, it's a NeXX 3020: https://openwrt.org/toh/nexx/wt3020
           | 
           | I have two of them, and use one as a Wi-Fi client/NAT/VPN
           | gateway/ad blocker when I'm at customers and some hotels.
           | 
           | Setup is pretty trivial, you can do a lot with LuCI and the
           | OpenWRT packages.
        
           | close04 wrote:
           | These travel routers [0] [1] support OpenWRT and/or
           | Wireguard, as client and server. They also support connectng
           | to captive portal WiFi networks so they're perfect for
           | travel.
           | 
           | [0] https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-ar750s/
           | 
           | [1] https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-ar300m/
        
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