[SOLVED] Building WiFi with secondary login in; unable to connect smart devices

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
N

norton.allene

Nov 17, 2018
1
0
10
I live in an apartment building that provides WiFi for residents. After connecting to the initial WPA2 Personal network with password, it initially took all of my devices to a secondary "splash page" login where I needed to provide my apartment number, email address, and a property code (basically a password) in order to complete the connection. When I connected my Echo to WiFi, the Alexa app provided access to this "splash page" within the app to connect my Echo to WiFi.

My problem is that I am now trying to connect a smart outlet to wifi to use with my echo, and neither of the smart outlets I have ordered have been able to connect, and I am assuming this is because of the stupid "splash page" secondary login. The second smart outlet I purchased was Amazon brand and setup is done through the Alexa app (same as my Echo) but it is not giving me the option for the secondary login.

My QUESTION is... is there a way to "rebroadcast" the apartment's wifi as a "new" network, preferably one that I log into once, recognizable as one device, and then connect the rest of my smart devices without having to log in again?

I think I have found a solution in a USB wifi adapter ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008IFXQFU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 )

- one of the commenters states that they are able to use it in hotels that have wifi with a secondary login to connect to their chromecast.

I am just wondering if this is the BEST way, or is there another router/repeater/extender type device that would be better, or another way entirely? Thank you in advance! I just want to be able to talk to my freaking LAMP
 
Solution
B
Maybe talk to the apartment complex and recommend they use enterprise mode and a radius server. I would think it would be simpler than the intercept system they are using. This way every person would have their own userid and password that was unique. Since all wifi devices support this it would just be a matter of putting in your id and password rather than just the SSID and password.

You might be able to do this but it depends on how hard they make it. A repeater/extender will not do the job because their intercept system still sees each device as different mac/ip and will challenge each. What you need to do is basically hide everything behind a router. Problem is there are not many router that accept the wan connection...
Sort by date Sort by votes
B

bill001g

Titan
Aug 9, 2012
28,358
2,765
125,640
Maybe talk to the apartment complex and recommend they use enterprise mode and a radius server. I would think it would be simpler than the intercept system they are using. This way every person would have their own userid and password that was unique. Since all wifi devices support this it would just be a matter of putting in your id and password rather than just the SSID and password.

You might be able to do this but it depends on how hard they make it. A repeater/extender will not do the job because their intercept system still sees each device as different mac/ip and will challenge each. What you need to do is basically hide everything behind a router. Problem is there are not many router that accept the wan connection via wifi. You could build your own. You would take what is called a client-bridge and plug it into the wan port of any router. Many repeater/extenders can run as client-bridge or you can get devices like that from companies like ubiquiti. Most ubiquiti stuff is for outdoor use but it will work fine indoors.

What should happen is the first device you use can put in the authorization information and then all the other devices can use the connection because it all appears to be coming from a single ip/mac address. It will likely work for some period of time and then you will have to manually log in again to open the path for the other devices.

 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom