I’m kind of confused about what to do with Captive Portals. For example, if I am at a hotel or Starbucks, and need to accept the terms and conditions before it allows me to connect to the internet.
For reference, I am trying to connect my work laptop to a travel router that in turn connects to a home server router, so it always looks like I am working out of my home city.
I recently went to a cafe to test this out and brought my work computer and my personal laptop. On my personal laptop I was directed to the café’s captive portal. I accepted it. Then I went into the web admin panel of my Slate AX. I went to Network > Mac Address > Clone. I then clicked Apply.
And it worked! I thought it would be more complicated than that? Is it really that simple?
There was already a MAC address prepopulated. Is it as simple as clicking apply or do you need to manually update something? I was looking at the instructions here and it wasn’t clear to me: Connect to Captive Portal - GL.iNet Router Docs 3
I didn’t do anything mentioned in Solution 1. I wasn’t sure if for Solution 2 all I needed to do was click apply or if there was some intermediary step.
The only other thing I’ll mention is initially I didn’t think it worked because it took about 5 minutes after clicking Apply before I was connected.