And thanks for preaching, not practicing! Gave me a resolution, no question.
Quite frankly those paying attention to the detail provided gave the basic clues as to what’s going to have to happen next in order to try to provide the guests a happy conclusion. Wasn’t the best news in the world, but it does show what can’t happen in the present configuration.
Also want to give ya big kudo’s on knowing that quote feature too!!
XBox OS… it scares me that someone can even make that statement, like Microsoft would even allow someone to make an editable OS for anything. Once again, proves the point that skimmers never prosper. Language. Right.
I’m in a similar situation. I have both hotspot and pppoe capability on the same router with an external RAIDIUS. A user can register just fine with the hotspot system, and can configure his laptop/computer to work using pppoe. Works without an issue. However, if I have a device like a XBoxlive or Ubiquiti antenna acting as a router, both will refuse to authenticate through pppoe. Any ideas why pppoe will work on a laptop but not on an XBox??
Ouch, so if I get the PPPoE functionality turned on there’s a possibility that they still can’t even log on? Before I whip up this hornet’s nest, even I’d like to know if there’s a fix for this problem…
So, since you have no access to the system, and now way to make the xbox open the hotspot, then to be honest, the only workaround I can think of may be too much work for you - it’s up to you… but it’s to find some sort of device you can keep on hand that lets you spoof a mac address - you’d spoof the xbox’s MAC, then get logged in, then revert your MAC back.
OR - maybe you get the hotel to keep 5 or 6 of these routers on hand they can loan out?
All that said, as a traveller I always carry my own router - just so I can have all my devices talking to each other… and at times to set up hardware VPN back to my office and have my VOIP phone working at the hotel while out of the country It doesn’t seem that unreasonable to suggest that people do that - nowhere are you obligated to set up a non-traditional hot-spot for game consoles.
I recommend you get a dumb 4 port router, ask your useless tech support to bypass it ( if they will not, you can plug another pc into it and login to the hotspot for how many days your coupons work), then tell your xbox guest to plug that in between the wall and the xbox.
I however do have admin access and am interested in some of the scripts mentioned like the mac address script and the common sites walled garden. People call us with xbox connect to hotspot ( we create a mac login usually, sometimes bypass but that kills the rate limit) and would love to eliminate these calls.
It doesn’t seem that unreasonable to suggest that people do that - nowhere are you obligated to set up a non-traditional hot-spot for game consoles.