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They called their manager, who was also suprised but decided to go along with it and restarted the modem, solving the problem. I remember all the employees were looking at me for the rest of my visit (which was few hours because at that time I was working from Starbucks).
Glad I wasn't the only one :)
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I have a work laptop (government) that hates captive portals. It has a security system that won't let it connect using the local DNS. So it doesn't get captured. Those of us with such laptops all have tricks for getting to a hotel's wifi login page using IP addresses. But we have to do it fast, before the security software fully wakes up and blocks the hack. We used to just login on our phones, then tether the work l…
This was the reason why I bought a travel router/wifi repeater. You connect your corp laptop to the travel router then use your phone to log into the hotspot. Hotels are now using Meraki Air Marshal to block them on 2.4Ghz networks though
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Does the laptop also prevent wireless tethering to your phone? Turning your phone into a hotspot is pretty trivial, at least on iOS. I often have to do it due to similarly arcane security configuration settings on my work laptop.
Yes, but unless you have a phone with two wifi connections then you will have to use your cellphone's data plan rather than the hotel wifi. When traveling, doing a teleconference or having your work laptop perform a windows update over your cellphone data connection isn't cheap. We used to just tether to our work phones, but they locked that down after seeing the international roaming bills.
15+ years ago, I had the same problem at a Starbucks. I asked the cashiers to reboot the modem, but they didn't understand why. Then I showed my new Microsoft certification card which has MCSE and few others and told them that "trust me, I know what I'm doing". They called their manager, who was also suprised but decided to go along with it and restarted the modem, solving the problem. I remember all the employees we…
Why isn't the solution as simple as, "Reset the Internet at every flight turnover"? Once the plane lands and (almost) everyone deplanes, hit the button as another step in crew handover.
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> Isn’t this the fundamental point of the push for impotency in configuration management tools? FYI, The word you're looking for is idempotence (EYE-dem-poh-tense).
Thank you. I thought this was some reference to giving people config options that don’t actually do anything.
Typing too fast and not paying attention.
Although I do like your interpretation. Maybe I’ll call poorly implemented or useless functions impotent from now on.
Why don't laptops randomize their MACs?