Not a bad idea... Get a small 2 port device like a Mikrotik that's already authenticated and keep them at the guest services desk. If they take it with them it's a $40 charge on their bill (or similar). On Mar 18, 2016 7:19 PM, "Ty Featherling" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I travel with my Xbox when I'm gonna be alone. I have used a Mikrotik > running NAT to connect and then authenticate through it. Then I can connect > whatever I like behind it. > > -Ty > On Mar 18, 2016 7:07 PM, "Josh Reynolds" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ah, that makes sense. >> On Mar 18, 2016 7:04 PM, "Steve D" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 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 <[email protected]> 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" <[email protected]> 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? >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>
