[HN Gopher] Internet in a Box ___________________________________________________________________ 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) | [deleted] | 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/ ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-02-23 23:00 UTC)