You can use your phone as a wifi hotspot to connect
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1st@kbin.social 8 months ago
Chromecast doesn't work on most hotels WiFi anyway. At least it won't work if they have a page to sign into the WiFi after connecting. Pretty much have to use a HDMI cable in most cases
wildergheight@lemmy.world 8 months ago
treadful@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Infinite free wifi loop hack
dan@upvote.au 8 months ago
The newer Chromecasts work fine since you can just log in using the remote.
For older Chromecasts, you can set up a wifi hotspot on your phone. At least on my Samsung Galaxy S22, you can share any wifi network that way. It’s also a good way to bypass restrictions that only allow one device to connect to the wifi network, as they’ll only see your phone on the network.
some_guy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You can call the hotel’s IT and get your MAC address whitelisted to avoid all that captive portal bullshit. Once you have one device whitelisted you can just have others spoof that MAC if you are able.
Psythik@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I have yet to call a hotel IT department that was competent enough to even know what a MAC address is. Last time I called one, the lady on the phone didn’t know the difference between megabytes and megabits.
scottywh@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What hotels are you guys staying in that give guests the ability to contact their IT department at all?
That sounds like insanity to me.
some_guy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I have yet to stay at a hotel that wasn’t able to get my streamer onto the network without a login page. 🤷
schmidtster@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Doubtful many would have access to that without calling a different company.
And doing that would be a security risk regardless, if they just randomly whitelist devices… holy fucking shit, no wonder everything is getting “hacked”.
TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Mac filtering is slowly dwindling for newer technology that works better.
PM_ME_YOUR_SNDCLOUD@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A Travel Roku is the real pro tip.
Spellinbee@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I ran into the same issue with the chromecast. So when I travel I always bring a roku, because that will let you access the login page.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I also always travel with my travel router, another headache solver.
nocaptchaforme@lemm.ee 8 months ago
100% recommend this. Setting it in repeater mode with the captive portal is great. I have a Slate and a Brume.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Slate still holds up so nicely, but if it ever breaks I’ll get another one from glinet!
Swarfega@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I should upgrade my crappy TP-Link TL-WR702N actually.
Any idea why the Slate AX router costs more than the Beryl AX which has better specs?
Maslo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Some projectors are about this size too, and are surprisingly powerful for their size. But then the new issue is finding a blank section of wall
Haywire@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Rip the sheets off the spare bed, hang them over the crappy artwork.