raymac46 Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 Well Saturday night I stayed at a hotel chain that shall remain nameless (Days Inn.) The hotel advertised free wifi and most reviews were positive. So just to be safe I brought along a Windows laptop. Right. I got the lappy unpacked fired it up and connected to the wifi gateway. To my dismay it was a totally unsecured hotspot and you had to launch a browser to accept the terms and log in. Eset started giving me grief about an insecure network and I could not reach the login page in any browser. Finally I fiddled with the wifi settings had Windows 10 diagnose the connection and fix the problems. Turns out DHCP wasn't working. After that I got the login page and then I could surf OK. I wasted no time invoking Private Internet Access though. Eset kept telling me about all the smartphones that were joining the network. I don't know why a hotel can't have a normally secured wifi network and change the password. Too much trouble? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 They probably just don't know enough about it to realize what a security hazard it is. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 They probably just don't know enough about it to realize what a security hazard it is. Yeah, most people have no clue how to do even the most basic networking setups. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 (edited) Hello, I always like it when I'm traveling and find out the hotel still has wired Ethernet. Plug in, sniff a little traffic to see if I'm on a switched or a bridged connection, and then fire up the VPN connection. About half the time wired is from a different provider than wireless, and since everyone's used wireless it's much faster. The last hotel room I was in consistently had 56Mbit/s up, 49 Mbit/s down. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky Edited June 28, 2017 by goretsky fixed typo 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted June 26, 2017 Author Share Posted June 26, 2017 Yes I hear you, Aryeh. I always have an Ethernet cable in my backpack but unfortunately this hotel didn't have that option. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 The last hotel room I was in consistently had 56Mbit/s up, 49 Mbit/s down. Faster than my home broadband. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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