TL/DR, sorry in advance...
I posted this on G+ as well as I can't be the only one who will do this and the responses I have received so far don't sound promising:
I stay at a lot of hotels, I'm at one now actually. I can connect to their wifi, however, when I open a new browser it loads a new page prompting me to enter their passcode and accept their TOS. No prob, my phone, tablet, laptop all connect. The problem is, Chromecast can't, it doesn't open a new browser so there's no place to enter the code and check the TOS box.
Any ideas on how to get this to work? I tried using my Nexus as a hotspot but no luck there either (maybe that's a different thread).
Here are the responses I have received so far..
Can you connect your laptop to a Ethernet cable? If you can you should be able to create a software bridge between the Ethernet port and the WiFi
I have no idea how to do this but I will look for steps tonight when I am back at the hotel. Does anyone think this would resolve it?
From Google support:
Chromecast is small and compact, perfect to bring on your next trip within the US. Setup is similar to the process you went through at home, with a few caveats:
- The hotel needs to have 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi network
- The username and password must be public
- If the hotel router/network has AP or client isolation enabled, you will not be able to set up your Chromecast device. This setting needs to be disabled on the router in order to set up Chromecast properly
Unfortunately, these networks usually have AP/client isolation in which Chromecast will not be possible as you will need to disable the AP/client isolation on the router.
This is all Greek to me but it doesn't sound good.
Thanks to anyone with ideas!
I posted this on G+ as well as I can't be the only one who will do this and the responses I have received so far don't sound promising:
I stay at a lot of hotels, I'm at one now actually. I can connect to their wifi, however, when I open a new browser it loads a new page prompting me to enter their passcode and accept their TOS. No prob, my phone, tablet, laptop all connect. The problem is, Chromecast can't, it doesn't open a new browser so there's no place to enter the code and check the TOS box.
Any ideas on how to get this to work? I tried using my Nexus as a hotspot but no luck there either (maybe that's a different thread).
Here are the responses I have received so far..
Can you connect your laptop to a Ethernet cable? If you can you should be able to create a software bridge between the Ethernet port and the WiFi
I have no idea how to do this but I will look for steps tonight when I am back at the hotel. Does anyone think this would resolve it?
From Google support:
Chromecast is small and compact, perfect to bring on your next trip within the US. Setup is similar to the process you went through at home, with a few caveats:
- The hotel needs to have 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi network
- The username and password must be public
- If the hotel router/network has AP or client isolation enabled, you will not be able to set up your Chromecast device. This setting needs to be disabled on the router in order to set up Chromecast properly
Unfortunately, these networks usually have AP/client isolation in which Chromecast will not be possible as you will need to disable the AP/client isolation on the router.
This is all Greek to me but it doesn't sound good.
Thanks to anyone with ideas!