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Go online through your home

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.

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Your home as the exit

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.

  • Mac and Windows PC offer the exit and use it
  • Linux servers offer it in the terminal, Linux uses it in the app or the terminal

Offer and use

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.

  • DeskRanger Secure: confirm offering it once with Touch ID or Windows Hello
  • Switching off takes effect at once and asks no other device
  • The setting survives a restart
  • The “Automatic” switch picks the exit for you

You see every use

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.

  • A use you ended stays ended until the device switches it on again
  • In a remote session only switchable from one of your own devices

The card says what snags

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.

  • If the exit runs through a relay, it says so
  • On the Mac, macOS asks once so printers and routers stay reachable
  • As long as nobody offers an exit, your internet goes directly

On a Linux server

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.

  • sudo deskranger network exit on and off
  • sudo deskranger network roles lists every device that uses it
  • sudo deskranger network end followed by the device name ends a use

Still to come 近日公開

  • Using the exit on the go on iPhone, iPad and Android
  • The “Traffic” view: how much flows along each line

Everything step by step, for every platform:

Exit to the internet

よくある質問

Does the device at home have to be on?

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.

Can anyone read along what I open through the exit?

The path to your device at home is encrypted. After that the connection to the website itself applies: a page over http stays unencrypted.

一緒に使うと、もっと便利。

Your own network

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.

Home network on the go

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.

Direct or relay: you see the path

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.