Comment on Apple TV's tvOS 17 brings VPN support, which Tailscale now supports.

• cosmic_slate@dmv.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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”.

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  • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m surprised any VPN would be strong enough for streaming video of anything other than potato quality

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    • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You’re kidding! I thought all the traffic went through tailscale. So it’s basically just establishing the connection, then I’m only limited by upload/download speed of the NAS and the client?

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    • Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        On your own network? I’m not sure the reason to use tailscale between computers on the same network, nor if that’s really relevant to the discussion. If tailscale was capable of 600mbps from outside the network then that would be another story

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  • RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Have we figured out if this solves the Netflix password sharing limitation yet?

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    • cosmic_slate@dmv.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • spiritedpause@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think that’s only if they detect that you’re connected to an IP address that they recognize as part of a commercial VPN service, since i’m sure they have a list.

        I use netflix when connected to tailscale VPN on both my phone and apple tv and it works fine, since the exit node that netflix is receiving my connection from isn’t a commercial VPN IP

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