I'd like to think I'm a little above average when it comes to getting around my computer and setting up networks. However, this one leaves me stumped.
I am currently using internet similar to the kind you'd get at a hotel. You plug in the ethernet cable, open the browser and it takes you to a login page where you can purchase your internet speed and usage length. I'm in Iraq where you can go through these providers at each camp to purchase internet and login via their page... much like a hotel or airport. I haven't had any problems with these providers until I got to this particular location.
In the past all I've done is plug the ethernet into my router and the service remembers my router's mac address. Occasionally I've had to clone my laptop mac address as the wan port of the router.
This particular provider is being weird. The wan side of my router gets assigned an ip address along with all the particular dns servers the company uses. I can't get to any pages... not even the login page.
So I unplug the ethernet and plug it into my laptop and I immediately get to the log on page. So I'm thinking, hey, maybe they remember my mac. So I cloned my laptop mac to the router's wan and still no internet access. I tried logging in with the laptop then switching the cable over. No luck.
So I admitted defeat. Then I though maybe I could set up internet connection sharing. Ethernet has internet access, shared. Then my wifi is an ad-hoc connection to my netbook. I tried getting to the internet on the netbook.... and success... I get to the login page. So I sign in and browse the internet. When I go back to the laptop, it takes me straight to the login page, so I sign in, which in turn signs the netbook out. FML.
May the router and ICS are unrelated, but that's where I'm at.
I guess my question is... Is there a way the "isp" can detect if a device is a router or not, and if so, then block it? If so, is there a way around it?
I'm messed with many settings in the router to include setting it up to router mode or gateway mode. Ive also tried using dd-wrt's firmware to have more control of the router but still no success. I have a wrt54g... not that it matters. This router has worked in different locations with logons in the past, but this location seems to be giving me a hard time.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am currently using internet similar to the kind you'd get at a hotel. You plug in the ethernet cable, open the browser and it takes you to a login page where you can purchase your internet speed and usage length. I'm in Iraq where you can go through these providers at each camp to purchase internet and login via their page... much like a hotel or airport. I haven't had any problems with these providers until I got to this particular location.
In the past all I've done is plug the ethernet into my router and the service remembers my router's mac address. Occasionally I've had to clone my laptop mac address as the wan port of the router.
This particular provider is being weird. The wan side of my router gets assigned an ip address along with all the particular dns servers the company uses. I can't get to any pages... not even the login page.
So I unplug the ethernet and plug it into my laptop and I immediately get to the log on page. So I'm thinking, hey, maybe they remember my mac. So I cloned my laptop mac to the router's wan and still no internet access. I tried logging in with the laptop then switching the cable over. No luck.
So I admitted defeat. Then I though maybe I could set up internet connection sharing. Ethernet has internet access, shared. Then my wifi is an ad-hoc connection to my netbook. I tried getting to the internet on the netbook.... and success... I get to the login page. So I sign in and browse the internet. When I go back to the laptop, it takes me straight to the login page, so I sign in, which in turn signs the netbook out. FML.
May the router and ICS are unrelated, but that's where I'm at.
I guess my question is... Is there a way the "isp" can detect if a device is a router or not, and if so, then block it? If so, is there a way around it?
I'm messed with many settings in the router to include setting it up to router mode or gateway mode. Ive also tried using dd-wrt's firmware to have more control of the router but still no success. I have a wrt54g... not that it matters. This router has worked in different locations with logons in the past, but this location seems to be giving me a hard time.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
