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Any word on whether it will have support for wifi behind captive portal? I've got a Chromecast v1 that I was excited to bring it on trips with me to watch Netfl

by darren 11y ago

Any word on whether it will have support for wifi behind captive portal? I've got a Chromecast v1 that I was excited to bring it on trips with me to watch Netflix from the hotel room, but I could never get it to connect to hotel networks which always have the stupid captive portal authentication scheme.

uiri 11y ago
Why not change your laptop's MAC address to that of the chromecast, authenticate on the laptop and then plug in chromecast?
- guyzero 11y ago
  Client isolation prevents routing of multicast packets for device discovery.
  - SlashmanX 11y ago
    Guest Mode?
spinchange 11y ago
Most hotel WiFi networks enforce device isolation too, so I don't think you can 'see' the chromecast even if you could authenticate it. The workaround is to create your own hotspot, bridging the hotel's WiFi to your own 'travel router,' using a laptop. At that point, it's probably easier just to watch Netflix on the laptop... :-/
- habosa 11y ago
  Chromecast has guest mode now, you can set up without being on the same WiFi network.
HeavenFox 11y ago
Some hotels I stayed at went as far as disabling HDMI ports on their TVs, which is extremely annoying.