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Not the person you are replying to. It's not unusual to find a working RJ45 in a hotel room, and as a bonus they often don't have a captive portal. Otherwise y
by sowbug 3y ago
Not the person you are replying to. It's not unusual to find a working RJ45 in a hotel room, and as a bonus they often don't have a captive portal.
Otherwise you can usually set up a router to bridge one WiFi network to another. Sometimes the captive portal screen just works on your computer that you're connecting to your own router. Other times you can sign in while connected to the hotel WiFi, and then clone your machine's MAC address so the network thinks the router has already signed in.
My favorite hack is bridging a congested hotel 2.4GHz network to my own personal 5.8GHz network, which benefits everyone if you are a family about to light up 5-10 more devices.
The WiFi-to-WiFi bridge isn't always very efficient, especially if the router has to multiplex the two connections using a single antenna, but speed isn't always the top concern.
- litoE 3y ago> My favorite hack is bridging a congested hotel 2.4GHz network to my own personal 5.8GHz network, which benefits everyone if you are a family about to light up 5-10 more devices. I do the same thing. It's failed only once: the /24 address space in my "internal" network was the same as the /24 used by the hotel's network and I didn't think to chrck. I brought down the hotel's router.
- kortilla 3y agoThis is a misconfiguration. Your private address space should not leak at all towards the hotel router side. If it brought down the hotel router it sounds like you had some kind of loop between the “private LAN” and the “WAN”. Depending on if the NAT configuration in the router is fully correct, it should even fully work if both are the same.