Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Tue Dec 8 15:14:47 UTC 2009


On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:18 AM, Andrew Cox wrote:

> Sounds like a great idea in theory but would require OS support or a dual-hotspot setup that provided for both options until support was expected.
> Until such time it's simply unworkable.
> 
> That and as mentioned in my previous post, the setup we have *just works* for users who don't have the permissions to change off of a static IP and use DHCP on their laptops.
> 
And it just breaks for those of us who actually expect "internet access" to mean
access to the internet, not just the web.

I make a habbit of calling support and pushing the issue hard through multiple
layers until I finally get a management denial, then, demand refunds of my
connectivity charges every time I encounter this at a hotel.

I figure that the reason you guys deploy what "just works" as you put it is because
it lowers your support costs, so, I do what I can to increase the support costs of
delivering a broken internet.

I encourage others to do the same.

Owen

> Andrew
>> 
>> This really should be a DHCP option which points to the authentification
>> server using ip addresses.  This should be return to clients even
>> if they don't request it.  Web browers could have a hot-spot button that
>> retrieves this option then connects using the value returned.
>> 
>> No need to compromise the DNS or intercept http.
>> 
>> Mark
>>  





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