Fuck my prior preparation day with the Chromecast with Google TV before the hotel checking…

I don’t travel too often so my Chromecast needed some tweaking (AKA updating system and apps etc), I like to take it as a travel companion and found out this shitty frame around the TV.

It is the first time it happened to me, I can see this being annoying for frequent travelers.

  • some_guy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    58·
    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.

    • Psythik@lemm.eeEnglish
      151·
      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.

      • scottywh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        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.

      • some_guy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        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. 🤷

    • schmidtster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      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”.