Thanks for the help! I appreciate the patience, since the library is far from my place, my responses will not be quick while I go and "test".
The first image, shows the message when I attempted to go to http://neverssl.com:
This one is the link shown from the same message above, when I try to "go to login page" when in login mode. I'm not sure if I should post the link as-is; looking into it, there are keywords such as "real_ip", "client_ip", "auth_version", "key", etc...is this not security risk? Possible to PM the full link instead? The redacted link looks something like:
https://na.network-auth.com/splash/ikXsNaHb.0.97/?mac=98%3A18%3A88%3A40%3A31%3A17&real_jp=[redacted IP]&client_ip=[same IP as previous]&client_mac=[I think this is my MT3000 MAC address]&vap=0&a=[42-character alphanumeric string]=[8-digit number]&auth_version=5&key=[40-character alphanumeric]&acl_ver=P15228118V2&continue_url=http%3A%2F%2Fcaptive.apple.com%2Fhotspot-detect.html
I attempted them through my Macbook again and tried to use camouflage and auto-enable login mode. Didn't work still.
I then tried through my phone (Pixel 8) and it also didn't work. I don't think the repeater ever successfully connected. The router never successfully show the captive portal, so I don't think I can try your suggested method:
Another try...connect again.
I'm not sure if I'm doing it wrong, but I tried a similar step to this post on Dec 2024 (from previous link):
- Turned on my VPN from phone
- Connect to Library SSID, but did not accept captive portal yet.
- Change randomized MAC to device MAC
- Accept terms to get through the captive portal
- Switch back to randomized MAC
- Switch to MT3000 SSID from phone
- Go to admin panel, connect to Library SSID with clone MAC (auto-enable login mode off). I think I had to turn off camouflage mode, otherwise the "clone MAC" option does not show.
- Did not work and the admin panel keeps showing "no connection error"