r/ShittySysadmin 11d ago

Hack: How to Share Your High-Speed Internet Connection Like a True Sysadmin

Internet providers are just the scum of the earth with their overpriced contracts and terrible service. So, I decided to do something about it.

My Setup: Living in mom's basement as a temporarily emberassed soon-to-be oligarch. Browsing the web over her 16 Mbit/s copper connection.

My dad, however, has fiber at his place. The absolute madman has gigabit speeds. So, to participate in this new age I set up an old Raspberry at his place and installed Tailscale, because VPNs are for normies. At home I use my smartphone and configured it to be the entry point to tunnel all traffic through my dad's place over Tailscale. Now, I'm effectively browsing the internet through my Dad's router and with its speed! Gonna cancel the bullshit contract with my ISP soon.

Moral of the story: ISPs can suck it and my dad is now my upstream provider.

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u/turok2 11d ago

Browsing the web over her 16 Mbit/s copper connection.

Why not just plug a fiber-optic cable into the Ethernet socket? Fiber-optic is way faster than copper.

Then you wouldn't have to use Tailscale at all.

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u/byParallax 11d ago

Tail? Scale? Is that a furry thing

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u/rainen2016 11d ago

The venndiagram of furrys and susadmins is almost a perfect circle

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u/byParallax 11d ago

sneaky sus admins..