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How to connect to the Internet on a unsecured hostpot with tokennumber and password
I want to use my new Netgear PR2000 in a hotel as a private small hotspot for the existing hotel wlan which is not secured by WPA or so. From the hotel I have got a tokennumber and a password. When I ...
Hi I used the PR2000, with Optimum online hotspot and they require you to validate yourself with your user name and ID each time I connected / logged in.
I think if you set PR200 the same way I did it might work for you in the scenario mentioned above, but you will still have to log in through the Hotel, once the first time or after your connection times out.
I set up PR2000 to connect to the Wi-Fi hotspot as an extender, but left the "extend my current wireless router's range " section UNCHECKED, to keep my devices behind PR2000's firewall & isolate them from the Public Optimum Wi-Fi.
I got the prompt to log-in when I opened my browser, but once one of my PC goes through this log-in page to get online, other PC and smartphones connected to the PR2000 are not asked for same.
I believe their hotspot/router only sees the MAC address of the PR2000, because the Optimum hotspot provider actually allowed me to register the PR2000 device to my account (they allow five) and subsequently they just allowed me to go online without the prompt for user ID and Password whenever I connect my devices via the PR2000 to any of their hotspots.
I hope this helps :).
I think if you set PR200 the same way I did it might work for you in the scenario mentioned above, but you will still have to log in through the Hotel, once the first time or after your connection times out.
I set up PR2000 to connect to the Wi-Fi hotspot as an extender, but left the "extend my current wireless router's range " section UNCHECKED, to keep my devices behind PR2000's firewall & isolate them from the Public Optimum Wi-Fi.
I got the prompt to log-in when I opened my browser, but once one of my PC goes through this log-in page to get online, other PC and smartphones connected to the PR2000 are not asked for same.
I believe their hotspot/router only sees the MAC address of the PR2000, because the Optimum hotspot provider actually allowed me to register the PR2000 device to my account (they allow five) and subsequently they just allowed me to go online without the prompt for user ID and Password whenever I connect my devices via the PR2000 to any of their hotspots.
I hope this helps :).