I do not personally care about governments knowing because I (and most people) do not go to sites that they care about and it takes some effort for them to track me from the hotel’s public IP. I also do not care about hotels knowing because I would not be the first person staying there who goes to porn sites , nor would I be the last . If they really cared, they would have their Internet management service provider implement blocking of most porn sites.
There are definitely destinations and situations where VPN would be beneficial. In these uncommon cases, I can use an Android proxy server app on my Asus smartphone for http/https traffic to go through the phone’s VPN, or I can use the VPN client on my device. Both are easier and more reliable than fiddling with a router to get through a captive portal.
Yeah, that’s the same reason I never close my bathroom door.
I live in Europe, under the GDPR.
I’m not worried about them knowing because they could block it. I’m worried about them using the info to sell me stuff. Or to do some other nefarious thing.
Coming back round to the beginning, I see a lot about Roku and fire sticks not having any issue, so I thought I’d go have a look.
If I follow, they seem to use some sort of temporary pass through to a laptop or phone to deal with the portal. You plug the stick into the TV, search for the wifi, add the password and then, when it senses the captive portal, broadcasts a new SSID. You connect to that with a laptop, and the stick passes through the captive portal. Once you’ve cleared the captive portal, the new SSID shuts down. It strikes me a little like the wifi switches, Joules, amazon devices and what not that use a temporary wifi AP to gather necessary information and then connect to the main AP.
Although it was funny reading a lot of the complaints, with many answering that you should just get a travel router and be done with it.
If I use a GL.iNet router as repeater to connect to the wifi to use as WWAN, then it would be good for the router to detect the captive portal and allow me to connect a laptop/smartphone to the router WLAN to clear the captive portal.
Yes! Interesting possibility, I thought. I’m not sure what would be the tell-tale to trigger it, but yes, you connect to the router and start the repeater process and something happens, whereupon the router does… something… we haven’t considered before.
Hello, I have a new Beryl AX and finally took it to my first trip. I set it up prior to the trip and it worked fine connecting to my home network acting as a wireless repeater. I was connected to my Ubiquiti network using the AC Lite and nanoHD AP’s. I am still currently able to connect to my iPhone’s hotspot from the Beryl AX
I am able to connected to the hotel wifi fine with my iPhone 13 mini, and windows 11 laptop but the Beryl AX keeps saying it cannot connect and will try again later. I’ve tried the following firmware, all fresh settings
4.4.6 stable
4.5.0 beta
4.5.0 latest snapshot (Nov 7,2023)
and all cannot connect to the hotel wifi. The hotel is small and not a chain, using what looks like a Linksys router.
I’ve attached the logs from the router on 4.4.6. Thanks in advance!
