yeah I’m not sure what the point of this is tbh.
Comment on Apple TV's tvOS 17 brings VPN support, which Tailscale now supports.
NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Are there used for this outside of video streaming? Ive found Tailscale too slow for decent quality video streaming myself
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
cosmic_slate@dmv.social 9 months ago
If you run a media server that isn’t publicly exposed, it lets you jump in to browse stuff w/o needing to forward additional ports.
Another use is if you want to bring the device with you on vacation. You can VPN back home and have your traffic exit out of your house which may be useful for streaming services that require traffic be “in the same household”.
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I’m surprised any VPN would be strong enough for streaming video of anything other than potato quality
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 9 months ago
The bulk of the traffic between two Tailscale nodes is direct between the nodes. They mainly use the Tailscale servers to help them find each other (NAT hole punching) and establish a connection.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
It’s going to depend on the devices involved, but I get about 600 megabit or so between two computers over tailscale on my network (really, wireguard). That’s what, 10 HD video streams? Of course, it’s going to depend on device cpu capability and network bandwidth.
RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 9 months ago
Have we figured out if this solves the Netflix password sharing limitation yet?
cosmic_slate@dmv.social 9 months ago
I haven’t tried it. AFAIK Netflix won’t work on iOS if you have a VPN active so I don’t have high hopes for Netflix.
charizardcharz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You can use one of your nodes as an exit node for another device and route your traffic though it as an alternative to a public VPN, depending on your needs.
I use it for remote management, video streaming, and the occasional file transfer without publicly exposing my NAS. You could achive all this by setting up your own wireguard server but that’s more work.
I’m surprised you’re finding it too slow for video streaming. I use it just fine and can saturate my 300 Mbit connection when doing file transfers.
JoeHill@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Wait. I can use my Apple TV as a VPN server? Did I understand you right? That would be a nifty redundancy tool for me if my main wireguard server goes down.