jrebeiro;500011 Wrote: > Most hotels have a portal login regardless of cost. They usually do this > to limit the number of consecutive days the same MAC connects to the > network so nearby residents don't get free internet. > > Also, if you setup an ad-hoc network that won't work. You would need to > setup the network in infrastructure mode to allow internet sharing. Most > hotels that offer wireless usually have a physical ethernet jack you > could use. In this case I have used a portable wireless access point to > connect multiple devices to a single access point without using the > portal or paying for multiple accounts.
Since Radio has both WiFi and Ethernet, you should be able to either 1) connect Radio to the hotel WiFi and use ethernet between Radio and a laptop/netbook so you could use the laptop/netbook to deal with the portal (using Linux iptables NAT) -- would require an enhancement to Radio, see https://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11150 2) connect the laptop/netbook to the hotel WiFi and use ethernet between Radio and the laptop/netbook so the laptop/netbook could share its connection with Radio via ethernet The second option is probably better if you want to take your laptop to other parts of the hotel, and should work with the current Radio firmware. However, as far as I know traffic between Radio and SBS or MySqueezebox.com is entirely unencrypted. I don't know of anyone who's bothered to create "cloning" software for Squeezeboxes, but it's likely that anyone else in the hotel could "sniff" your Radio's MAC and UUID and at anytime afterward impersonate you at MySqueezebox.com -- giving them the power to mess with your favorites, saved stations, Facebook info, etc. Squeezebox, Squeezebox Server, and MySqueezebox.com are ill-suited for use over "open wireless" networks, in my opinion. If the WiFi service is good enough, you may be able to resolve most concerns by using an encrypted tunnel back to your home network much as lrossouw did. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AllQuiet.html) 'Auto Dim/AutoDisplay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AutoDisplay.html) 'BlankSaver' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/BlankSaver.html) 'ContextMenu' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/ContextMenu.html) 'FuzzyTime' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/FuzzyTime.html) 'KidsPlay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KidsPlay.html) 'KitchenTimer' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KitchenTimer.html) 'PlayLog' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PlayLog.html) 'PowerCenter/BottleRocket' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PowerCenter.html) 'SaverSwitcher' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SaverSwitcher.html) 'SettingsManager' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SettingsManager.html) 'SleepFade' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SleepFade.html) 'StatusFirst' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/StatusFirst.html) 'SyncOptions' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SyncOptions.html) 'VolumeLock' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/VolumeLock.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73156 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
