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Have you tried hooking it up to an Ethernet port in a hotel room like the one that the TV uses?
by hnburnsy 10mo ago
Have you tried hooking it up to an Ethernet port in a hotel room like the one that the TV uses?
- avidiax 10mo agoThis rarely works. The TV network is usually access controlled, so you either won't get an IP or you simply won't have internet access. Some hotel rooms (particularly older business hotels) will have an ethernet port for the guest. These work maybe 50% of the time these days. Sometimes you can find a Ruckus AP in your room at outlet level, and these usually have several ethernet ports on the bottom. These also have a working port around 30% of the time. So, TL;DR: various ethernet ports in hotel rooms work less than half the time these days.
- fastcall 10mo agoHow’s that access control handled? Very easy to spoof the MAC of the TV or setup some SNI spoofing proxy server, NGFWs with TLS Active Probing are probably harder to deal with but do hotels really have that?
- SomeUserName432 10mo ago> Very easy to spoof the MAC of the TV or setup some SNI spoofing proxy server At that point you're in the 0.1% that the hotel does not really need to worry about. The other >99% will still need to pay for wifi.
- danw1979 10mo agoit’s probably >0.1% here …
- hnburnsy 10mo agoI've read the GL.inet can easily clone the TV Mac, pretty cool.
- shibapuppie 10mo agoThat won't help you if they use 802.1X.
- kstrauser 10mo agoI’ve never seen that in a motel. It’s a lot of extra network expense to cover something very few people would ever think about.
- wateralien 10mo agoI've had success hooking it up to some Ethernet cables in hotels, but it's 50/50.