How to connect an apple tv to hotel wifi

Thank you so much! So easy, I'm taking my apple TV with me everywhere now!

Worked great except I had to restart Apple TV for it to work.

Connect via your laptop and enter all that stuff. Then try connecting your ATV to it. A network like that is likley to have rules in the terms about not allow streaming traffic from services iCloud, iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, etc. So they maybe blocked.

Thanks so much worked like a charm!!

If you have a laptop get the mac address of your wifi card and your appletv

1. Open terminal and "sudo ifconfig en1 ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX" where X's are your apple tv password

2. Enter your admin password

3. Connect to hotel wifi

4. Accept terms and conditions

5. Forget the network and disconnect

6. "sudo ifconfig en1 ether "YY:YY:YY:YY:YY:YY" where Y's are your wifi card's original mac

7. Start Apple tv and choose the hotel wifi

This avoids calling anyone

Can i screw up my mac's original MAC by doing this? Or when I reboot, will everything go back to the defaults even if I don't reset it?
Thanks

I would like to add to the original question.

I want to recreate the capability I have in my office of displaying

content on my iPad (or iPhone) on my TV via my Apple TV 3.

I stream movies, mirror the iPad display and show keynotes.

There may or may not be WiFi available in the hotel.

Swabaxter... you need wifi to communicate between your iPad and Apple TV. However, you don't need necessarily need internet to communicate between them. That said, the question is, "Do the files reside on your iPad or iPhone (the movies or presentations to be displayed)?

If your answer is "no" – meaning you need access to Netflix, Hulu, etc. Then, connecting to Apple TV is pointless. In this case, purchase an A/V cable to connect your iPad/iPhone directly to the TV.

If your answer is yes, you can bring a wireless router with you and setup a wifi network in the room (without Internet), and then you can play the devices from you iPad/iPhone to Apple TV. However, even though you "can" do this, and the technology is still pretty cool today... it is much more efficient of time to just but an A/V cable and connect directly to the TV. Unless you have wifi/Internet access, there is no "real" purpose or advantage to trying to connect your devices to the TV via a middle man (Apple TV).

ohiofats, I have the same question as travelsunlimited (as someone who doesn't tinker in Terminal very often). Will anything need to be reset after the fact?

To Swabaxter:

I agree with TheMickster. If the original files are on your iPad, and you don't need remote control capabilities, it's much easier to connect the mobile device directly to the television using a composite cable (bonus: requires less stuff in the suitcase). I travel heavily for work, toting my own moies and TV shows along on the iPad to watch in the room at night. Very easy, very slick.

Here's the cable you need for an iPad:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC748ZM/A/apple-composite-av-cable

Nice thing about the cable is that it includes a USB connection so the iPad can be charging during playback. I've seen a couple of posts about folks having trouble with iOS7, but I haven't experienced problems. Still works like a charm.

One pointer: The silver Y/R/W plugs are slippery, making it tough to wiggle them loose from tight TV ports. Wrap them in a thin layer of self-fusing (self-amalgamating) electrical tape and voila! Perfection.

Here's the tape (Home Depot, $2.50):

http://www.homedepot.com/p/3M-3-4-in-x-22-ft-Temflex-Splicing-Tape-2155/20219540 1#

Not sure about cabling to a newer iPhone since that's not where I stash videos.

@paperqueen you shouldn't be able to screw up your computer's MAC address. If you follow the directions you reset it back to the original settings after you accept the terms and conditions when you are spoofing the Apple TV. The only real reason you do this is to avoid the network seeing two of the same MAC addresses.

I think it resets to original MAC after reboot.

Awesome advise this worked wonders! My hotel uses ATT Stay Connect, she says it works for all streaming players and xbox and such you just need the MAC address! So easy! Now I really CAN take my Apple TV everywhere!

Great tip, thanks!

I just arrived at a Marriott and used the method in the first thread, called their tech support ( got the number from the front desk) and within 5 minutes of calling was hooked up. Thanks for the help.

YES! Best answer ever!