Fixed guest password for travel?

teepee · 2024-09-16T11:16:04.595Z

Hi, I have a GL-MT3000. I am travelling for the next month in europe. What I would like to do is every time I check-in to a hotel or airbnb is to add the local wifi using the admin password so the GL-MT3000 is acting as a repeater but have a fixed guest password so that all other devices, e.g. laptop, phone, tablet can always use the same fixed password (but not the admin password) to login.
Also will it make any difference if I am using a VPN (PIA)?

Thanks,

admon · 2024-09-16T11:16:39.757Z

It's exactly as I use my travel routers as well - perfectly fine.

VPN won't make any difference.

teepee · 2024-09-16T11:31:19.584Z

Thanks for the info about the VPN but my main issue is how to setup the fixed password for other devices while travelling.

admon · 2024-09-16T11:34:51.038Z

Just set the SSID + Password - I don't really understand the issue here.
Repeating does not mean you will copy the SSID + Password of the other Wi-Fi.

teepee · 2024-09-16T11:37:53.336Z

The SSID and p/w of the GL-MT3000? I must be missing something because I thought to login to the GL-MT3000 I would need the admin password which I don't want to give to all the other devices.

admon · 2024-09-16T11:49:05.124Z

SSID password and Admin password are 2 different things.

Admin password is needed for whenever you want to configure something.
SSID password is used for connecting via Wi-Fi.

If your question is about how to allow guests (so not you) to modify router settings without giving them the admin password: It's not possible.

teepee · 2024-09-16T11:59:31.473Z

Okay, I think I am getting it now All I have to do is configure guest access as in the following screenshot?

admon · 2024-09-16T12:10:39.047Z

I still don't understand what you goal is, that's why I asked.

But general speaking: Yes, guest Wi-Fi access will be configured by this screen.

teepee · 2024-09-16T12:15:49.421Z

Thanks for your replies admon. My goal is to take the router with me, enter the new wifi SSID and p/w with each new hotel room or airbnb and not have to change any settings on all the other devices, i.e. they should automatically connect to the GL-MT3000-fec-5G-Guest (including the vpn), or the 2.4G if that is the only SSID connected.

If there is a better way of doing this I would be glad to know it.

groentjuh · 2024-09-16T12:31:07.373Z

I think you are confusing some things.

You connect the MT3000 to the hotel/airbnb wifi using its repeater function. How that works, you can read here. This is the bit you need to do at each new hotel/airbnb.

You can test/try that function just at home by connection it to your own home wifi.

Both tabs of that "Wireless" are for settings of SSIDs of the router itself. The guest tab being for guest (those will be isolated from each other/cannot see each other on the network and just get internet) and the other tab being just for normal use. You can make 2 networks using the device. This bit can just stay the same at each hotel/airbnb!

system · 2025-03-15T12:31:26.186Z

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