WiFi to WiFi Router Configuration In Hotels

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I've just bought 2 WiFi to WiFi routers, one because I want to extend the Network at home and the other for sharing connections in Hotels rather than paying multiple times to connect laptop, phone, tablet and the kids / the boss's devices.

At home it's easy just to click on the Network you want to join and enter the wireless code but hotels when you click on their network ... you then log in via a web browser using both a username and password rather than just the password.

Does anyone know how the WiFi to WiFi routers will deal with this .... they can be set up using PPPoE and you can enter bothe username and password but I'm guessing that's for hard wiring it to connect to an ISP rather than say a hotel WiFi and do I also have to set up "mac cloning".

I'm asking in advance rather than spending ages on a weekend break trying to work it out, the routers I've bought are an Edimax BR-6258nL and a TP Link TL-WR802N.

Any help much appreciated!!!

 
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Sorry that you already bought the equipment, but fortunately you can use it all at home, set up one as an AP in an area with a weak signal.

After a decade as a "road warrior," I have found that the best solution is to log on with one laptop that has two wireless adapters, although one adapter is sufficient if you run Windows 7 due to the virtual miniport adapter, and then buy a copy of Connectify to distribute the original signal to all the devices that you want from the primary laptop connection to the secondary wireless adapter that acts as a distinct access point with security controlled by you.

I have not used the latest version, which has the capability to bridge to an extender apparently, so perhaps you can use...
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Sorry that you already bought the equipment, but fortunately you can use it all at home, set up one as an AP in an area with a weak signal.

After a decade as a "road warrior," I have found that the best solution is to log on with one laptop that has two wireless adapters, although one adapter is sufficient if you run Windows 7 due to the virtual miniport adapter, and then buy a copy of Connectify to distribute the original signal to all the devices that you want from the primary laptop connection to the secondary wireless adapter that acts as a distinct access point with security controlled by you.

I have not used the latest version, which has the capability to bridge to an extender apparently, so perhaps you can use that spare router. :)

I've never found a place that it doesn't work, although I suspect there may be some lurking out there.
 
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Will not likely work in a hotel installation. The standard wireless repeater is dependent on WDS to work and a hotel will likely have this feature disabled. The userid/password is not done in a consistent way but almost all are some for of what is called a captive portal. It does not use pppoe. What most are doing is asking for a userid/password via http and then dynamically inserting firewall rules that allow the mac/ip address access for a certain period of time. There really is no way for a router/repeater alone to emulate this.

Now if you were really ambitious you might be able to use a wireless bridge connected to the wan port of a router. You would still need to log in via a pc to open the portal but all device then connected behind the router would work. The hotel likely if they really wanted to could prevent this type of installation.....they likely will not prevent it though because it would make it harder on your normal dumb users.

The above method mentioned works also and can bypass even 802.1x security but you are using you pc as a router.
 
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