Gotten fairly frequent when the guests are renting "by the month". (Construction workers, for example.) They want to hook up their xbox or whatever.
-Steve D On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote: > Just got off the phone with Hotel Management getting one bypassed through > the hotspot authentication. Apparently people bring their gaming systems > to hotels. I guess could make up a big laminated sheet with a Static IP > Addresses that's bypassed in the hotspot setup, then they would have to > manually enter that in and it would be bypassed. > > When they called me, the guest had already entered in the hotel WAN IP > into the xbox, (I guess they got it from another device that was connected) > but didn't know the subnet or Gateway. The initial call was 'Give me the > Gateway address for a guest to use' before I could figure out what they > were actually trying to do. > > > On 3/18/2016 6:38 PM, Josh Reynolds wrote: > > Is this something you run into frequently? > > I had no idea this was a thing. > On Mar 18, 2016 6:37 PM, "Nate Burke" <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote: > >> For those of you doing hotels, or anything with a Hotspot portal page. >> How do you handle people who want to hook up gaming systems? From what I >> understand, you can't open a browser unless it can connect to the <gaming> >> network, so it will never be able to click the 'accept' button on the >> proxied webpage. Do you manually enter in IP Addresses, or bypass MAC's, >> or just outlaw them alltogether? >> > >
