click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.
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so - you're in a random public house without wifi, but next door is a jury's inn hotel does have it, with an option of a free 24 hr free session
an interstitial pops up asking you to 'sign in' but you need to agree to the t&c's..
given that the t&c's are on an internet page and not locally hosted like that landing page, guess where clicking that link takes you?
door with goat 1
nope - a goatdoor with goat 2
another goatdoor with mony halls car
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@all_users All doors lead to goats.
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@all_users Use your phone.
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@XanderTheGamer said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
@all_users Use your phone.
I did
and connected it to my computer
guess the ssid:
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@all_users said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
with an option of a free 24 hr free session
before someone else gets there...
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Easy. Agree to our terms and then we'll tell you what you agreed to.
Filed under: How generous of you!
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There was a captive page for the Hilton's wifi to be charged to your room. The price was stored in a hidden input field. I enjoyed my 1¢ Internet connection.
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@error YOU EVIL HAXXOR!!!
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@error said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
Agree to our terms and then we'll tell you what you agreed to.
After "we have to pass the bill to see what's in it" that's not very reassuring.
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Well, now that you have that screenshotted and written down, you're probably legally exempt from those terms, in the extremely unlikely event that a dispute reaches the courts.
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@error said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
There was a captive page for the Hilton's wifi to be charged to your room. The price was stored in a hidden input field. I enjoyed my 1¢ Internet connection.
I just stayed at a Hilton; I'll have to remember to see if that's still the case next time.
Just for curiosity's sake, I suppose, and schadenfreude, because every time I've stayed at the Hilton I've gotten three devices free on their network. :?
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@heterodox said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
@error said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
There was a captive page for the Hilton's wifi to be charged to your room. The price was stored in a hidden input field. I enjoyed my 1¢ Internet connection.
I just stayed at a Hilton; I'll have to remember to see if that's still the case next time.
Just for curiosity's sake, I suppose, and schadenfreude, because every time I've stayed at the Hilton I've gotten three devices free on their network. :?
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@error That's from bloody 2009. Now the prompt is for last name and room number and then there's no charge to the room.
Still $9.95 if you want more than three devices (and the Ethernet) connected though, I think, but that's the point at which I'd really start to be concerned about my addiction to connectivity.
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@heterodox But you don't have a family who all want to be connected at once.
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@boomzilla said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
@heterodox But you don't have a family who all want to be connected at once.
That's a fair point.
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@heterodox said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
more than three devices
Meh, I'd just set up my router as a repeater and have as many devices I want.
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@heterodox said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
Just for curiosity's sake, I suppose, and schadenfreude, because every time I've stayed at the Hilton
The last couple of hotels I stayed at, they gave out coupons with free 1-day passes to the wifi for the asking. I wonder if it's more to keep non-guests from stealing the wifi than to make money, at least sometimes.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
Meh, I'd just set up my router as a repeater and have as many devices I want.
Not sure if that'd work since the devices are identified by MAC address? Internet connection sharing/bridging or NATing would work though.
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@heterodox said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
@Tsaukpaetra said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
Meh, I'd just set up my router as a repeater and have as many devices I want.
Not sure if that'd work since the devices are identified by MAC address? Internet connection sharing/bridging or NATing would work though.
Right. In non-bridged mode, the router acts like your typical client to the hotel Wi-Fi and NATs the connection out to the router's clients. It's not really efficient, since you're halfing the effective bandwidth, but it works without fuss and only the first client needs to do the walled garden thing.
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I've had worse than that. While waiting for internet to get set up in an new flat, I was using a 3G dongle. When I ran out of credit, only the operator's sire worked. I went to pay for more and after entering my card details it tried to load the Verified By Visa additional password and was promptly redirected to the "fuck you, give us money" page
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@Jaloopa said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
only the operator's sire worked
“Daddy, how come only you have a job?”
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@dkf Was that bit of worth a month old necro?
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@Jaloopa said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
@dkf Was that bit of worth a month old necro?
yes. yes it was.
at the very least it was more on point and funny than a fbnecro
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@dkf said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
@Jaloopa said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
only the operator's sire worked
“Daddy, how come only you have a job?”
Because mommy's job can't be put on the books, dearest....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
@dkf said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
@Jaloopa said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
only the operator's sire worked
“Daddy, how come only you have a job?”
Because mommy's job can't be put on the books, dearest....
Homemaker?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
@heterodox said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
more than three devices
Meh, I'd just set up my router as a repeater and have as many devices I want.
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@anotherusername said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
@Tsaukpaetra said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
@heterodox said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
more than three devices
Meh, I'd just set up my router as a repeater and have as many devices I want.
Yeah, I apparently don't have any devices that are supported or have the right driver for it.
Also, Windows 7.Also, so much cheaper, faster, and power efficient to repurpose a $4 router from Goodwill than fscking around with Windows trying to get it to work.
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@Tsaukpaetra Also, you have to have Windows 7. They removed that from Windows 10. It still technically exists, but IIRC it requires some Powershell fudgery to set up now.
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@mott555 said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
it requires some Powershell fudgery to set up now.
Well, technically speaking I'm sure you could build an application with the DLL references, the powershell option was always there. I swore there was an app that did this, actually... Obviously don't remember because I never got it to work, so
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@Tsaukpaetra said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
Yeah, I apparently don't have any devices that are supported or have the right driver for it.
My Windows 7 laptop came with a supported Wi-Fi adapter/driver out of the box.
Also, Windows 7.
Also, yes. Windows 7. Because now I have yet another reason why Windows 10 sucks and never to upgrade.
Also, so much cheaper, faster, and power efficient to repurpose a $4 router from Goodwill than fscking around with Windows trying to get it to work.
Free is even cheaper, and it only took a few minutes to configure it from the command line.
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@anotherusername said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
Free is even cheaper, and it only took a few minutes to configure it from the command line.
Not free, because you needed to buy a Windows 7 computer (that happened to have a compatible Wireless Card and Driver).
Just because you had a lucky experience, doesn't make it the norm.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
Not free, because you needed to buy a Windows 7 computer
Nope. I already had one.
that happened to have a compatible Wireless Card and Driver
Is that uncommon or something?
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@anotherusername said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
that happened to have a compatible Wireless Card and Driver
Is that uncommon or something?
Dunno. Never got it working across ~10 different models of laptops when I was frantically trying to do so for a... project. Best I could do was ICS with an Ad-Hoc network, which is finicky for raisins.
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@Tsaukpaetra are you sure the card/driver was the problem?
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@anotherusername said in click here to read our t&c's for using our internet. oh.:
@Tsaukpaetra are you sure the card/driver was the problem?
Nope. I'm not even sure if the three differing flavors of Windows were part of the problem.
I mean, I had less trouble jailbreaking my phone to enable tethering, and that can be somewhat daunting.
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@Tsaukpaetra I'm pretty sure I have a zip file at home with the necessary working instructions. It was a while ago so I can't remember for certain but I might've found some instructions initially that were hard to understand / didn't work.
I'll have a look see. I might've posted the bad instructions here. If so I'll change it...
(it's not in my DropBox folder, so...)