My mum lives in a retirement caravan park where for £130 per year, she has access to ‘Park Wifi’ - a Ramtech company (crappy) ‘service’. This service requires that you have a single logon - that can only be used on one device at a time, and that device has to have a web browser (the wifi network is security free - they use a redirection webpage to process login credentials’) The problem is she has an iPad, iPhone, Macbook Air and an Apple TV with a Netflix account. And the Apple TV can’t ‘login’ because there is no browser for the security information to be entered.
I’ve lent her my Mac Mini, which I’ve used to sign into the Wifi network, and then using Internet Connection Sharing to pass the internet connection over ethernet to an Apple Airport Extreme WAN Port. The AEBS is working in ‘Bridging Mode’, which in turn has it’s own local wifi network that all the devices will and can connect to. This works for about 30mins to several hours and then something goes funny in either the DHCP or Ethernet Internet Connection Sharing and the Airport can no longer see the Internet connection that the Mac Mini is sharing.
After two (long) calls to Apple Tech support, I’ve been told this is ‘not supported’ and I’m ‘using the hardware in non intended ways’.
So my question is this - what CAN I buy that will connect to and allow the user credentials login to this (crummy) ‘Park Wifi’, and then share that to a wireless router of some kind, that Apple TV and other wireless devices can talk too, and this HAS to be stable and remain up for 24/7. I’ve considered a tiny PC tower, and maybe a Raspberry Pi type device, but I’m wondering if there is a little network bridge or other device that will sort all this out for me.
I’ve lent her my Mac Mini, which I’ve used to sign into the Wifi network, and then using Internet Connection Sharing to pass the internet connection over ethernet to an Apple Airport Extreme WAN Port. The AEBS is working in ‘Bridging Mode’, which in turn has it’s own local wifi network that all the devices will and can connect to. This works for about 30mins to several hours and then something goes funny in either the DHCP or Ethernet Internet Connection Sharing and the Airport can no longer see the Internet connection that the Mac Mini is sharing.
After two (long) calls to Apple Tech support, I’ve been told this is ‘not supported’ and I’m ‘using the hardware in non intended ways’.
So my question is this - what CAN I buy that will connect to and allow the user credentials login to this (crummy) ‘Park Wifi’, and then share that to a wireless router of some kind, that Apple TV and other wireless devices can talk too, and this HAS to be stable and remain up for 24/7. I’ve considered a tiny PC tower, and maybe a Raspberry Pi type device, but I’m wondering if there is a little network bridge or other device that will sort all this out for me.
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