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Re:Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get arou... by nullify88 on Sunday May 22, 2022 @02:37AM (#31465479)
What do you do when wifi has a captive portal though requiring a user name and password?

I use my Samsung S10 for exactly this as it has multiple radios that allows connecting to wifi and hotspotting to share that connection with other devices. Great for Chromecasting.

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Re:Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get arou... by SargeDebian on Sunday May 22, 2022 @03:26AM (#31465771)
The first device to connect has to go through the captive portal, then the rest doesn’t.

Also works well if your 2nd device doesn’t support captive portals (Chromecast, Tesla car).

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Re:Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get arou... by richiezc on Sunday May 22, 2022 @11:55AM (#31469507)
I used just clone the MAC address across my iPhone and laptop and switch between them, so I guess you could use your phone to get through the captive portal and then connect with a travel router that clones the phones MAC address.
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Re:Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get arou... by 867-5309 on Sunday May 22, 2022 @03:32AM (#31465807)
you would need a router which supports WISP Repeater mode. some GL.inet products support this
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