I’m seeing a lot of this same comment here, so I went to check out this tailscale thing, which clearly I must need.

Can anybody explain what Tailscale is, does, or why everybody seems to have it?

Looking at their website, it’s just a huge wall of business jargon. Really! Read it. It’s nothing but a list of enterprise terminology. There’s a “how it works “ page full of more (different) jargon, acronyms and buzzwords, but no simple explanation of why everybody on this thread seems to be paying money for this thing?

Any help? Should I just pay them my $6/month and hope I figure it out at some point?

I do want to point out that dumping all of your traffic through a home/office network is not always a good idea. YMMV, but if you are in, say, LA, and pushed your 0.0.0.0 traffic through your home in NY, you just added quite a bit of latency.

This is great for keeping things in a LAN, but make sure you use your network rules correctly and don’t dump everything to your home network unless you need to.

(I too have a gli slate, but I use UI at home so will consider this when it comes out)

> with the added bonus that you don't need to install tailscale client in any of your travel devices (phone, tablet, work computer, etc).

I am sorry, this confuses me. If I don't have a lclient, for example in my laptop, how does my laptop uses Tailscale then?

Also, TailScale Personal says 3 users. Is that a problem for as we are 4? (me, wife, son, doughter).

These are neat in that you can jump on and extend existing wifi infra, but it'd be nice if they also included 5G. I want a product that does both.

It's cool to have your own network in a hotel. But it'd be nice to be able to do that on the road, away from public wifi, internationally, whenever - which hotspots do. But at the same time, it'd be nice to be able to do the WiFi thing too to cut back on data usage. I frequently blow through my hotspot data.

I'd rather this be in one device instead of two. Beggars can't be choosers, though, I suppose?