Cannot use repeater function for a cruise wifi

[bring.fringe18]

It is enabled OOTB on my Slate AX, f/w 4.2.3; I only changed the tracking IPs. I couldn’t imagine it not being also active w/ Repeater mode. I’ve had one or two strange little ‘gotcha’s’ that seem to be related to multi-hop latency when different GL devices are behind other routers in my LAN.

ps -w | grep mwan
 4551 root      1388 S    /bin/sh /usr/sbin/mwan3rtmon
22157 root      1308 S    /bin/sh /usr/sbin/mwan3track wan eth0 online 192.168.1.111 9.9.9.9 149.112.112.112

[sabut]

@bring.fringe18

disabling … Multi-WAN tracking

Tried that and this time the browser got redirected to the captive portal, then timed out. That does not happen when connecting the laptop directly, after the very first time registering the laptop every next time it just connects without the captive page. So I am pretty sure MAC spoofing is not enough and they are using whatever fingerprinting abilities of the Aruba devices. I will probably drop the attempts now, it obviously requires more than a cheap device and unprepared user to get in. Thanks for all the help anyway!

[beniamin]

It’s been getting difficult to have hotspot at hotels, cruise ships, planes etc. Companies are catching on and they are losing revenue if they don’t do something.

[Almahadeus]

Bought this one at the time and worked straight away:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08Y5YB5D1

I would have thought that these sites would also block TP-LINK routers first as they are undoubtedly much more prevalent and popular than GL.iNET as travel routers.

[Almahadeus]

Have you come across or tried this?:

Mac Clone on but still can’t connect

I use my Ar150 a lot at hotels for WireGuard vpn. I just connect with my phone to the captive portal and then clone the MAC address with the router and have all devices go through it. Today, though, it’s not working. I’ve double checked the MAC address is cloned (and not the “private” MAC address phones default to these days). I can connected fine with my phone, but then when I disconnect from hotel wifi and switch to the router, I can’t reach the outside world. Any idea what could be wrong? Ca…

or @Messagedj solution here:

How to Pass the Internet Access Portal

Thanks wcs2228 for your thoughts and explanation. I tried a lot of things yesterday… finally I got it to work I got it working with the following method: Connect a device to the camping WiFi. Made a screenshot of the assigned IP, DNS, Gateway. Disconnected the camping WiFi and clicked “forget Network” Then I connected to the admin panel of my Beryl. I searched for the WiFi network in my repeater setttings Clicked on the settings wheel and manually added all the details. After reboot my p…

[sabut]

Haha, that manual IP trick did work! I guess you cannot go stupider and simpler than that! Thanks everyone for your help, this is a great community!

Added: One thing worth mentioning, I had to reboot the device and set it to use a 5Ghz network manually, it did not work with automatic 2.4Ghz.

[beniamin]

Awesome! Great to hear

[Almahadeus]

Glad that you have cracked it. Interestingly, I have had to once set mine to 2.4GHz manually (from auto) before it would work. I guess one will have to book an extra day of holiday from now on to account for the time lost fixing these things!

[Laspammy]

Registered an account just to say thank you!!! The 5GHz band selection was the key that got it working for me, thanks for the tip!

Edit - I actually tried both 2.4GHz and 5Ghz and they both worked - I think the trick is you need to lock down to one of the bandwidth, might be useful to some people since 2.4 has better penetration power which might be helpful if your room isn’t too close to the wifi router on the ship.

[hugofpaiva]

Hello!

I am currently in a MSC cruise and I’ve tried everything mentioned but I still can’t make it work.

I have logged in to the internet using my phone without the random MAC address option activated. I then proceed to the travel router and have done the following:

• Clone the Mac Address assuring that it is not the random one
• Statically set the IP address of the router, gateway and DNS, equal to the phone setup
• Disable MultiWan setting on the repeater function
• Even tried changing the outgoing TTL to 64, 65 and 68 using an iptable command I found in another thread

I left the router with these settings connected during the night and received some notifications. I was even able to update the router firmware to the latest 4.5.x using the online function while connected to the cruise network but still couldn’t access the internet or captive portal on the phone. I am now trying the beta 4.6.0 but the problem persists…

Can you think of any thing to solve this? I am on a gran voyage cruise so I have time to try different settings

Thanks!

[Lastimosa]

Are you also using the Beryl AX? These devices are absolutely notorius for their problems and issues when it comes to being used as the travel routers that they are advertised to be. After many years and countless reports of these difficulties, finally some indication from the CEO himself of the significant issue but unsure if a solution might finally be on the horizon:

MT3000 - first trip, first impressions

One year later, finally I come to this hotel - Crystal Gateway Mariott. They have a open SSID - MarriottBonvoy_Guest. As I stayed in another Mariott hotel and I have this SSID stored in my router. The wifi and portal for different Mariott hotels are a little different though. I am using AXT1800 and everything go smoothly. Repeater connects fine. Wireguard and openvpn connect fine. Have good speeds. But MT3000 with stock firmware 4.5.16 does not connect to the hotel wifi, for some reason. I …

[hugofpaiva]

I’m using the GL-A1300