Extending a wireless network with an access portal

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alicelee689

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Hi,

I want to purchase a wireless repeater for my mom who currently lives in a nursing home. The nursing home allows us to use a repeater but does not provide any technical support on it.

The nursing home's main router uses a captive portal to let a user submit a user agreement before connecting a user's device to the Internet.

I bought a TP link repeater which works at my home but does not work at the nursing home.

I wonder whether it is the access portal that prevents it from working correctly. So I emailed the tech support and also sent queries to a few other vendors to learn whether their devices would work with access portals.

Some just told me no, but I dont understand why. Repeaters should send IP packets transparently which would allow a client computer to load the access portal page and submit user agreement.

Can anyone explain why a repeater might not work with an access portal and whether there is a device that may work?

Thanks!

 
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The portal should be transparent. The issue with repeaters is they are many times based on WDS which is not actually a standard. In many cases the main wireless device must be configured to use WDS, some router require you put in the mac of each repeater.

I know most repeaters you can set to client-bridge mode without WDS but I do not know if you can run in wireless repeater mode. Since when you run in client-bridge mode you can only have a single mac address it is generally only done when you hook a cable to the repeater.

If you can get it to work with a single pc plugged into the repeater then it is likely a WDS issue. What you could do at that point is use the tplink repeater in client-bridge to talk to the main router...
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bill001g

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The portal should be transparent. The issue with repeaters is they are many times based on WDS which is not actually a standard. In many cases the main wireless device must be configured to use WDS, some router require you put in the mac of each repeater.

I know most repeaters you can set to client-bridge mode without WDS but I do not know if you can run in wireless repeater mode. Since when you run in client-bridge mode you can only have a single mac address it is generally only done when you hook a cable to the repeater.

If you can get it to work with a single pc plugged into the repeater then it is likely a WDS issue. What you could do at that point is use the tplink repeater in client-bridge to talk to the main router and then plug a wireless router in behind. This would hide all the ip and mac behind a single router mac/ip......It also completely defeats the nursing homes agreement because one person could agree and then 10 people share the same ip.
 
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