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? >>> >> >> >
