Hello Raening and All,
I have had this problem twice and the solution that worked which I stumbled on by accident is below ( and as suggested also by Lousy ).
But I think we now need to know if there are any security implications of making this change - this is what concerns me and I’m sure everyone who is using this to protect themselves on public wifi. I do not have a complete enough understanding of what’s going on to judge this, nor do I understand why this DNS setting on my device should effect whether the router connects or not … I’m hoping someone will explain.
Sorry that this is for Apple. For Windows, there is something very similar. Start by looking for your network settings on the device that you are using.
So, you have tried “Mac cloning” and the public wifi shows up in Beryl settings but doesn’t give you access to the internet. On Apple ( mine is OS 10.14.6 ),
First use your browser to log into Beryl and, looking at the details of the hotel (or other public) wifi, note down the address of “DNS server”. In my case and just to show you the format, it is 10.10.65.254
Click on the wifi strength symbol top right of your screen
Click “Open Network Preferences”
Click “Advanced” button
Click “DNS” tab
My “DNS servers” on this screen reads 192.168.8.1 which is Beryl’s address.
Click the + button bottom left of the window.
This will give you a 0.0.0.0 which you can change
Fill in the address of the hotel DNS ( from the first step, mine was 10.10.65.254 )
Click OK
Click Apply.
That’s it!
I hope that works for you and others and that someone can answer the technical questions about it.
I tested with ipleak.org after doing this and all seemed well security wise but I would definitely like knowledgable confirmation.