AppleTV Connecting to Hotel WIFI

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AppleTV Connecting to Hotel WIFI

I have a few AppleTV boxes and this trip I decided to pack it and take it with me along with the remote and HDMI cable as the Hotels have HDMI connection. I thought this would be a simple connection, but I am not able to connect. I can find the hotel WiFi name and select it. The problem is it them takes out to a website to agree to all of the legal verbiage and type in a password. it is fine when I do this from the iPad or iPhone, but when it should take me to the website, nothing happens as it does not have browser capability. Has anyone found any work around to connect an AppleTV to a hotel WiFi network?

Apple TV 4K

Posted on Sep 7, 2021 1:31 PM

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rkaufmann87

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Sep 7, 2021 1:43 PM in response to AppleTVWebBrowser

The real problem is the hotel chain has additional security built into their system that prevents you from streaming and using their network bandwidth. The solution is to buy a travel router, then when using a hotel connect to the Internet using your own network and stream using that network. Travel routers are generally inexpensive and are designed to be not difficult to setup. Here is a link to an article that may help questions you have:

What Are Travel Routers? Everything You Need to Know (makeuseof.com)

When I travel, I bypass major hotel chains and use AirBNB or other similar services or use a smaller hotel chain.

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Sep 7, 2021 2:55 PM in response to rkaufmann87

Thank you and that makes complete sense…but I like to stay with one specific chain of hotels and do frequently. AirBNB is not for me, but I do know that works for a lot of people. Thank you again for taking the time to respond.

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