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WiFi at Sea (technical, sorry)
Hi, Ian, and group(s),
Ian Malcolm wrote: Skip Gundlach wrote: I configure the bridge to a blank SSID, which makes it look for the strongest signal. That's ok, but in this case, that caused it to redirect to their signin page. Otherwise, were that not the case, I could then go into the configuration page and specify which of the available ones, even those not shown, perhaps from a hidden SSID, or one I know to be available at less strength than the first (and limited to) 8 shown, such as I did before the pay site hijacked the signal. If your browser home page requires *any* DNS access to get to it, you will get redirected to the signin page on most commercial wireless ISPs. Similarly, if the router has got the DNS server address from the ISP via DHCP, and your bridge has a 'friendly' name for its configuration page rather than a dotted IP address, you will end up at the signin page again :-( Set your home page to blank then try accessing the bridge by its ip address rather than by name. The url should be of the form http://nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn/ fill in the correct numbers for your setup. If that works for you, BOOKMARK the location in that format or maybe set it as your home page. Would that it did - My reaction comes from merely typing in the URL (the way I usually reach the bridge to configure it) in nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn format, whereupon the pay site(s? - I've not been in an area with more than one at the moment, though the readout shows many presumed pay sites as well, some of which have more strength, but not as good a communications level)) redirects to their signin page. The bridge has no name - there's not a place to name it, even. In AP format, I could name the AP if I wanted, as well as the SSID. However, the bridge is notable only from its MAC address. Setting my home page to a blank (no characters on the line) has no effect - and in any case, unless I were to click the home icon, other than at startup, the home page would not appear. So, I'm looking into (don't really know where to look - one of the cites in this thread looks promising but I have to say that I'm so gun shy about Senao that I'd want to see one working before I went through anything remotely like what I have with wlansolutions) some other bridge which would see all available without selecting one for me, and let me push a radio button rather than have to type in the actual name. In this area, at least, while not so in my particular location at the moment, there are many instances of duplicate SSID names. The one I have (from the wlansolutions website "Multi-Client Bridge/Access Point Module Prism 2.5 High Power (200mW) 2611 CB3 PLUS MD" - the module, not enclosed version - 200, not 250mw, though Ric has the same product name unit - perhaps in the desktop version - on his boat) requires typing in the SSID - which, if there are more than one of the same name, makes for pot luck in selection. If, as should be possible, the scan shows two of the same name, a given MAC should show, and if that one is selected, that should be the one for the bridge to associate. So, perhaps better covered in a different thread, are there any other suggestions for client bridge replacement candidates - ones which would allow me to click my bookmark/favorite/whatever to reach the configuration page, and point and click on the desired connection point - but also *not* connect to any until asked, regardless of strength?? BTW, at least at the moment, the link Ansley provided stalls and goes nowhere when attempting any info other than the home page... -- Ian Malcolm. London, ENGLAND. (NEWSGROUP REPLY PREFERRED) Thanks for all the dialogue. I'm passing it along to various other non-subscribers to see if there's a solution visible. L8R Skip Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery! Follow us at http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog and/or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog "Believe me, my young friend, there is *nothing*-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing, messing-about-in-boats; messing about in boats-or *with* boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not." |
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