Connect to a Captive Portal at a Hotel, Airport, or Coffee Shop using a GLiNet Travel Router
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- In this video we go over 2 ways to connect to a captive portal with a travel router. The first way uses the GLiNet Travel Router and a laptop. The second way uses a cell phone.
0:00 Intro
0:26 What is a Captive Portal?
1:11 Powering the Router While Traveling
1:41 Connect to Captive Portal with Laptop
5:00 Connect to Captive Portal with Smart Phone
8:15 Outro
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By far, this is the best and most complete explanation I've found! This will save me much time and frustration fiddling with my Beryl travel router, which I've only occasionally been able to get working in repeater mode in hotels. I usually end up hunting for an Ethernet port behind the TV, which is a good backup but rare to find these days. Thank you! 👍
Thank you! You just gave us all another idea too! Finding an Ethernet port would probably provide the best speeds too!
A lot of video's about these routers but not much for how to make it work when abroad. Got mine today and this video is everything I needed to know. Thank you
Thank you! If you have any questions, please let me know!
@@justinreviewsandrepairs5246 Hello, I'm from Paris and I have some questions. I want to connect abroad with a work PC that already has a VPN. Could you please tell me what I need to buy and how to install it safely?
Ya I've been working abroad over several years on and off actually. Love these routers, setup a VPN server at home and then use the travel router while traveling. Decided to share my setup finally if you want to check it
Thank you!! I was having troubles connecting. This video helped figure out my issue.
Glad it helped! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks a lot.
Glad it helped!
I appreciate you adding all this rich information to us man! You're a legend. Awesome tutorial!
This is my first time getting a travel router. It's very cool to see the type of things you can do with it. :)
Note: I got the cheap GL.iNET router last time without all the added functionality. I will see about buying through your affiliate if I decide to upgrade!
Thank you! You can do a lot, even with the cheap ones, but the newer ones with Version 4 Firmware make it easy to use. On version 3 you can go into the command line to enable additional features.
@@justinreviewsandrepairs5246 I'll definitely have to check that out!
I've got a LOT to learn. I was trying to do a little bit of robotics with ROS and needed local connection between machines. And then I fell into the IT rabbit hole. 😄
Be sure to go down the Meshtastic rabbit hole as well! th-cam.com/video/_hGw2-hRXnk/w-d-xo.html
Great vid. It is really nice to see the actual usage of these devices. I've got some questions, and your video is the closest I have been able to find on the net, so hope you don't mind.
How easy and robust is it to navigate the router admin panel with just a cell phone? Can a guy rely on just a cell phone to do all the admin tasks while travelling?
If you use your phone to clear the captive portal, then copy your MAC address over to the router, what would happen if you continued to use your phone directly connected to the hotel wifi? Would the hotel wifi know there are two different devices using the same MAC address and boot them off?
Specifically, we're going on a cruise and I would like to have this little travel router for all devices in the cabin, but then be able to use just my phone while in other parts of the ship. I have PIA VPN setup on my phone (and would set it up on this router) so that I would always be protected even if using just the phone while away from the cabin.
Assuming two devices with the same MAC address would cause something to be flagged with the ship network minders, I assume I could "swap" back and forth by just powering the router down when I want to use my phone directly, then switch my phone to the router SSID when using the router in the cabin?
Thank you. Yes, the second method is possible with just a cell phone, the first method would work as well but it is harder on a phone.
If your phone supports randomized MAC Addresses, you could forget the network on your phone (after pasting it to the travel router) then connect and complete the portal again. Some captive networks will limit you to one device in which case you would need to connect through the travel router.
and, have you seen a battery powered version of such a travel router with this 「captive portal」 feature? for use cases like in other public wifi (coffee place or airport or on cruise) locations where not in room, it might not be easy to find plugin power?
They are powered by USB-C so you can use any battery bank and cable that supports fast charging (5 Volts 3 Amps). If you want one that has a built in battery, the Puli AX may be an option, but the form factor is pretty large.
In my initial tests, this battery bank did not meet the advertised capacity, but it has been a reliable battery with a great form factor: amzn.to/3wdrtaO #ad and it was small enough to pass by TSA. At 100 Watts it it strong enough to power a laptop, the router, and a phone. The battery life varies greatly depending on what I am working on.
hello, I found your videos helpful and enlightening; would you be willing to give me professional and personal consulting to be able to set up a vpn to be able to work abroad and not get caught by the company that always wants me to work in one location?
Thank you! I do not offer private services but I try to answer every comment and email. If you get stuck following the video, please email your question or problem to support@JustinPruett.com
I run my own vpn endpoint. a lot of home (non-isp supplied) routers can do it or a raspberry pi can do it too, if you like to learn a little about network, this is a good way to do it. this way you don't have to pay for a vpn service and it is a little more secure than using a paid vpn provider.
Inflation has hit the Pi pretty hard, I prefer to either get the Mini PC with the Ryzen 7 or just get a GLiNet Router: th-cam.com/video/LXbDg1v65Qs/w-d-xo.html
@@justinreviewsandrepairs5246 i no longer use a pi for vpn. i use a ubiquiti unified dream router pro to do the job. probably was more $$ but since your router is so critical and I change my router only once every 10 years, I splurged on one.
That is a great option as well, if you can afford it. The UDM Pro requires Access Points which also require POE, so it starts to add up fast. 💸💸💸 It is worth it though, I upgraded a small business to use it.
@@justinreviewsandrepairs5246 for me, investing in an udm-pro was a nobrainer. Think of it., how often you change your router vs your laptop? You change your laptop maybe every 4 years maybe more? Unless your isp force you or some really fancy new wifi standard that gives improve reception/performance, you won’t change your router. On the other hand, most people will change their laptop every 3-4 years max. With my udm-pro, my wifi functionality is separated from the routing. New wifi std came out, replace the AP. No need to re-setup my firewall, port forward, vpn etc. Ubiquiti’s wifi access point is fairly cheap in the scheme of things and they have resell value. You can scale up or down if you need more or less coverage. I can go on and on but I’m sure you get my drift.
I agree, but some people need the cheaper option 😕 hopefully the economy improves
Thank you for the excellent video. It's very thorough. I have one question. I'm traveling on a cruise this weekend. It's a Royal Caribbean ship. You connect your device through an app. I'm also an Android user. Would I simply just copy my Mac address and input it into my travel router? Thank you so much for your help.
I have not tried this on a cruise, but if they use a regular captive portal that should work! Please let me know if it does!
They use an app that logs your device into their network. So, could I take the MAC address from the one assigned to my phone by their network, copy and paste it from my phone, and clone it to my travel router like you did in this video? Thank you for your help.
I do not know, but it is highly likely you will be able to clone your MAC Address. What is the name of the app? Maybe we can find more information online.
Royal Caribbean App and the ship uses Voom as their ISP.
It seems like from this forum post that the MAC Clone method will work, just be sure to turn off Ad Guard: forum.gl-inet.com/t/cannot-access-captive-portal-royal-caribbean-beryl-ax/30938
Thanks for the video. Do you have any thoughts on chaining VPNs? Say, one VPN on the router, and a different one on the laptop? I heard that if you chain VPNs with Nord VPN, Nord VPN must be the first one in the chain, so you would have to use Nord VPN on the router. Which is unfortunate, as Nord VPN files are OVPN only, not Wireguard. Thanks again.
Thousands of people have chained VPNs using their home IP Address and WireGuard ®️ using this video: th-cam.com/video/LXbDg1v65Qs/w-d-xo.html or you could use a commercial VPN provider such as WindScribe which offers WireGuard ®️. Here is a referral link for WindScribe: windscribe.com/yo/0bzxgfqu and here is the WireGuard ®️ page: windscribe.com/getconfig/wireguard let me know if you have any other questions! Thanks!
@@justinreviewsandrepairs5246 Thanks very much!
Hello, I'm from Paris and I have some questions. I want to connect abroad with a work PC that already has a VPN. Could you please tell me what I need to buy and how to install it safely?
Hi, since the router can run a VPN, you can still run your work VPN on the PC as usual. Here is a video that covers the setup and you can choose the combination of routers from the description that fits your needs and budget. th-cam.com/video/LXbDg1v65Qs/w-d-xo.html
I think the Beryl AX is the best compromise between speed and price. Let me know if you have any questions.
do you have to do the MAC address spoofing with your smart phone? why doesn't the captive portal work the same way as the laptop?
You could use any device to do the spoofing, such as a laptop, but most phones can use fake MAC Addresses easily to prevent collisions on your network. If your laptop and travel have the same MAC Address you could run into problems.
@@justinreviewsandrepairs5246interesting thanks
Is there an option to change this repeater name from Gl to something else
Yes, but change them one at a time (2.4 and 5) so you don't get WiFi stuck in the off position: docs.gl-inet.com/router/en/4/interface_guide/wireless/
Sounds complicated to get router to connect to a hotel that uses a portal. This is exactly what I was looking for except I thought it was going to be much easier to get the router
to connect to the hotel portal
At first I thought the first way was easier, but really I think the second way is easier now. Unfortunately the hotels make it difficult.
the GL.iNet is a Chinese company and usually they can make the product very cheap; don't understand why this product can sell at a pricey $100+ label, while many other travel routers sell at half price or even less price point, usually these Chinese copycats product can copy features from each other very fast, hopefully @justin can find 2 or 3 vendor products and do a thorough comparison review? Thanks!
The Beryl AX goes on sale often for about $80. Companies that race to the bottom on price often overlook keeping their products updated. I also pay a lot of money for Ubiquiti products but the software updates and reliability are worth the extra money. If the Beryl AX is outside your budget, the Opal is still a great travel router, it is just not ideal for video streaming or conferencing.
That being said, if there is another brand you would like me to look at, I will consider it!
The $30 for the Opal to the $80 for the Beryl AX is quite a big jump just for the WiFi 6, but I would still go for WiFi 6.
@@tama47_to be fair the AX has a lot more power and features than the Opal as well. It’s not just WiFi 6. Especially for VPN etc.