Q: Airport Extreme behind captive portal
I really need some help to solve this issue!
- I am currently staying in a service aparment where the internet connection is behind a captive portal and I can only connect up the 4 devices concurrently with my login ID.
- I tried to connect my Airport Extreme to the WAN line in my room which is actually a LAN line since I am getting a Double NAT error afterward; this force me to put my Airport into bridge mode to make the error go away.
Here are my issues:
1) My devices managed to get internet connection through the Airport (in bridge mode) but each of them still requires to sign-in at the captive portal through the web browser, which mean I still have that 4 devices only restriction.
2) I also have an Apple TV and a NAS (Synology) attached to my network, but I couldn't get any internet connection with those since they don't come with a web browser for me to log in to the captive portal.
I guess the hidden service apartment router can still see my devices IP and MAC address when my Airport is set to bridge mode? MAC cloning might solve the issue but unfortunately the whole Airport series doesn't come with that function. Anyone got any suggestion before I try to replace my Airport with a TP-Link router?
OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
Posted on Feb 12, 2014 11:47 PM