Beryl can't connect to hidden SSID

wretchedworm · 2021-10-12T05:43:06.277Z

Hi, I live in a dorm and I just got a beryl for the specific purpose of repeating the dorm’s wifi so that i can have my own home network.
My dorm’s wifi is a hidden SSID and after successfully logging in for the first time, i would be brought to a page to enter my credentials. After that is done, then would i be able to surf the internet. This credential page is only seen once whenever a new device connects to the hidden ssid.

When i tried to use beryl to connect to this hidden ssid, i wasn’t successful. Scanning obviously doesnt detect the hidden SSID so i clicked on other and manually entered the hidden SSID name and password. I left the channel as 1 as i didnt know what channel i should use. When i tried to connect, it will try very long and then become unsuccessful and as a result i would lose connection with the beryl 2.4ghz SSID too. The beryl 2.4ghz ssid would disappear and in the end, everytime i would have to reset the router so that my imac could detect the beryl 2.4ghz ssid again…

What could be the problem? I’ve already spoofed my beryl’s mac address with my imac and logged in the hidden ssid and entered my credentials, because i anticipated that there might be problems getting that credential page with some new devices. So that credentials shouldn’t be the prob. And obviously I cant make the hidden ssid visible because i’m not the IT administrator of the dorm.

alzhao · 2021-10-12T08:52:25.244Z

You need to find out the wifi channel the wifi is using.

You can find this info after you connect your pc to the wifi. Not sure about mac, but windows is easy.

wretchedworm · 2021-10-12T10:02:50.193Z

Thanks. I managed to get the info .
And i managed to add that hidden SSID and beryl now says i’m connected to the internet.
However when i launch my browsers, i can’t connect.
I get this on chrome. (safari cant also)

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wretchedworm · 2021-10-13T07:54:54.775Z

anyone knows what’s the prob? kinda disappointed with this as i bought the beryl specifically for the purpose of using it as a repeater. will give it a few more days before i return this to amazon if no solution can be found

alzhao · 2021-10-13T12:37:38.251Z

The web page showed means that your WiFi is trying to show you a web portal page that you need to authorize.

If you access an http (not https) website there will have no such warning.

After you get authorized via the page you will have Internet

wretchedworm · 2021-10-13T14:16:44.104Z

good news. i finally got it to work.
I found out that it was because there was a MAC clone feature.
So the router assigned a random MAC address which was not verified before.
The strange thing was even when i entered the router’s real MAC address, which i had spoofed earlier and logged in successful, i still couldn’t access.
I ended up using using the MAC clone feature and just entered my imac’s MAC address which was already verified.