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Network
On hotel or café Wi-Fi you go online through one of your own computers, as if you were at home. The path there is encrypted, with no third-party VPN provider.
Your Mac or Windows PC at home can be the internet for your other devices. On foreign Wi-Fi, in a café, hotel or train, a device then sends its internet traffic encrypted out through it.
At home you switch on “Internet exit” on the Mac or PC. On the go you choose the exit under “Internet through home” and switch it on.
You always see who uses your computer as an exit: a card names every device with a red dot and “End”. The same line appears on the Mac in the menu bar and on the Windows PC in the notification area.
If the exit is gone, the card tells you whether the internet waits for a moment or carries on without the exit. If the Wi-Fi asks for a sign-in, the exit waits until you have signed in.
A Linux server with the network on becomes an exit in the terminal. The DeskRanger service forwards the traffic itself and changes no firewall rules, so nothing is left behind after switching it off or uninstalling.
Everything step by step, for every platform:
Yes. The device with the exit belongs to your network and is on. The device on the go needs DeskRanger with the network switched on.
The path to your device at home is encrypted. After that the connection to the website itself applies: a page over http stays unencrypted.
Your devices reach each other under simple names and fixed addresses, end-to-end encrypted and only among themselves. You do not need to open anything on your router.
You reach the NAS, printer or camera at home from anywhere through one of your computers as the gateway. The devices in the home network do not need DeskRanger.
Every connection shows whether it runs directly or through a relay, and if not directly, why and what helps. Both are end-to-end encrypted.