Beryl travel router not working with cruise ship Wi-Fi?

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Hi –

I am on a cruise ship with a one device plan (no switching allowed) and want to use my GL.iNet Beryl travel router to connect multiple devices. Here is what I have done:

  1. Connect my iPhone to cruise ship Wi-Fi with “Private Wi-Fi Address” turned off
  2. Clone my iPhone’s MAC address on my travel router
  3. Connect another device to my travel router with my iPhone disconnected from Wi-Fi entirely

I cannot connect to any websites (not even the captive portal) through my travel router. Anything else I should try? Thanks!

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Try turning off all the DNS settings

  • DNS Rebinding Attack Protection
  • Override DNS Settings for All Clients
  • DNS over TLS (Cloudflare or NextDNS)
  • Dnscrypt-Proxy Settings
  • Manual DNS Server Settings
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Yes, just chuck the blooming thing out of the window and try and enjoy your break.

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Thanks for replying! These seem to be disabled by default for me.

I tried resetting the travel router and connecting to the cruise ship Wi-Fi without cloning my iPhone’s MAC address and still could not pull up the captive portal. Could the network be configured to detect and block routers?

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It is possible. Try to mangle your TTL to 65. I remember seeing some posts on this, so a forum or google search should help.

ETA: for search purposes, people use to for using mobile devices as hotspots but want to hide the fact they are not using the phone itself.

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No solution; only a possible work-around.

On a recent cruise with my Beryl AX I had to use my iPhone connected to the ship’s Wi-Fi, and then I lightning-tethered to the BAX, and from there my laptop and other iPhone could Wi-Fi to the BAX and out to the world. Connecting BAX via iPhone Wi-Fi hot-spot did not ever work; BAX never saw iPhone SSID. (Maximize Compatibility is enabled…) The down-side is that my iPhone had to be there for the other devices to be used; fortunately for me that wasn’t an issue.

I have found that all the old TTL mangle instructions are useless; “the command” makes reference to tables that no longer exist. ymmv of course.

Happy cruise!

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Slate (AR750s) Tethering issue - #3 by yairmohr didn’t work?

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I was not aware that an iphone would hotspot a wifi network. I thought it only did cellular-based hotspotting. Like how they will not hotspot a VPN connection. Both are a security concern for enterprises. As far as TTL, I am certain there is a way to make that work, it may just take some googling. It is a simply iptables statement in a custom rule.