Comment on Brought my Chromecast with Google TV to a Hotel, TV is framed.

1st@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I also always travel with my travel router, another headache solver.

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  • nocaptchaforme@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    100% recommend this. Setting it in repeater mode with the captive portal is great. I have a Slate and a Brume.

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    • kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Slate still holds up so nicely, but if it ever breaks I’ll get another one from glinet!

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  • Swarfega@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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  • Maslo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • Haywire@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Rip the sheets off the spare bed, hang them over the crappy artwork.

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• wildergheight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You can use your phone as a wifi hotspot to connect

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  • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Infinite free wifi loop hack

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• dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• some_guy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • scottywh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • some_guy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have yet to stay at a hotel that wasn’t able to get my streamer onto the network without a login page. 🤷

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  • schmidtster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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”.

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  • TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mac filtering is slowly dwindling for newer technology that works better.

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• PM_ME_YOUR_SNDCLOUD@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A Travel Roku is the real pro tip.

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• Spellinbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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