Just thinking out loud…
I currently pay for the higher priced Netflix account so my two college students can use our family account. In fact, when I upgraded from the 2-user account to the 4-user account I believe Netflix’s sales point was “sharing is caring”. No longer.
I am wondering if my kid (only one at a time, given VPN limitations, I presume) could set their Apple TV or Roku TV to VPN to my UDM SE. Is this possible?
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install a wireguard or openvpn server and have at it
Not an expert here, just enough to be dangerous, so I’ll note that up front.
If your specific VPN question is directly related to Unfi OS for your VPN setup request, it’s not that easy with Openvpn. You can do it via console setup as this github repo notes. I’ve personally not completed the steps.
My setup, after switching to unifi, is a separate modem which is my old Ax11000. It acts as purly as my OpenVpn server and each person has their own config file. Works like a dream and power consumption is super low.
As a reminder, the calls being made are only as good as your upload and download speeds.
I’ve also not tried a wireguard setup, but did complete full windows setup directly in the OS (LT2P). Works good, but hardly ever need to use it. I wanted my setups on Android OS’s or setting up other router paths for direct connection in the console as a client.
Good luck regardless!
Get a glinet travel router for them. They have WireGuard and can connect to your UDM SE. For speed get a higher end Slate model.
Setup correctly anything connected to the travel router via rj45 or wirelessly will look like it is coming from your UDM SE.
Wireguard on my UXG-Pro easily handles multiple streams of plex, so Netflix should be ok too so long as you have the upload bandwidth
If for whatever reason this does not work on the UDM, you could use PiVPN on a Raspberry Pi 4. I have a UDM Pro, but I use PiVPN anyway. I like keeping the load off my UDM Pro CPU (It’s already slow with cameras and VLAN routing) and the Pi is just so easy to setup.
I’m not a Netflix user, but someone here posted it has to connect from the home network once every 30 days.
Seems to me you wouldn’t even need to have good bandwidth to handle it. Connect it for 10 minutes then go back to the dorm network.
Also if they have a MacBook look into internet connection sharing over a VPN tunnel. I have connected my MacBook to WiFi, connected to my office VPN then shared that connection via USB Ethernet and got my usb Ethernet connected device to travel down the tunnel. Might be a solution to get an Apple TV connected once a month.
Is the multi-user account currently not working, or are you preparing for the eventual demise of single household rules? As I understood it, the no password sharing rules was relevant to the base, single user accounts. I thought the multi-user plan was still that, multi-user.
Edit: looks like I was wrong. All account types are subject to the new rules.
But how do I use a VPN from a college dorm on an Apple TV? No VPN apps on the Apple TV App Store?
Your home network may be asymmetrical. Like mine is 200 down/10 up.
Them watching Netflix over vpn to your house is going to use both up and down at your house.
You could buy them their own Netflix accounts for a year for what a Pi 4 goes for right now…
Starting in March(?) your devices have to be connected to your “home network” at least once every 30 days. Doesn’t matter what plan you have. If you travel, you may be required to get a temporary sign-on to connect. Netflix seems to have walked back some or parts of it, but they are making the “home network” thing happen.
Netflix FAQ
you need to buy a UDM or UDMSE and set up a site to site VPN…
Wondering if you solve this? So if you didn’t yet you have two options that I can think of. The first is buying a dream router, which is only $199 and makes it super easy. However, another option is the new tvOS from Apple coming out this fall will support VPNs natively.
You would setup a VPN server on your UDM. Then a travel router of some kind such as the GL.INET Mango, Opal, etc. You would setup the VPN client on that. Since you wouldn’t want to stream the traffic over the VPN and in/out of your house. I would then only connect to it’s wifi when needed and switch back to the regular network in the dorm room.
My parents have an old asymmetrical cable connection too (hard to believe) but we both go through fiber at my office and the streamers can’t tell. People don’t realize none of the streaming boxes have a GPS.
Yeah. Easiest is to use some kind of travel router on the remote end and only connect to it when required which appears to be approximately every 30 days.
True, but where’s the fun in that?
Pi’s are ridiculously high right now, but PiVPN doesn’t need to be a Pi specifically, It runs on any x86_64 system. So you could pick up a surplus x86 or something from a thrift store and get it working also.