When using your travel router, do you guys use the same SSID and password as your home router? Does that allow you to just plug and go without needing to setup the CC each time?
When using your travel router, do you guys use the same SSID and password as your home router? Does that allow you to just plug and go without needing to setup the CC each time?
You could do that but it doesn't really matter...
The hard part isn't connecting to the CCast the hard part is authorizing the CCast to the internet.
The hard part isn't connecting to the CCast the hard part is authorizing the CCast to the internet.
Thanks for the reply. It is my understanding that more and more travel routers are including WISP connections in addition to ethernet connections, and if there is a splash screen to activate your connection, once you do that on one device you don't have to do it on the other devices. Is that correct?
Yep thats correct and sorry for the delay in replying back...
That is basically what WISP mode is all about...
For those concerned about securely using your Plex server from a hotel, I highly recommend you follow this thread: http://forums.plex.tv/discussion/173477/secure-connections-and-chromecast
Plex has not commented on the latest update to the Android app, but as far as we know the Chromecast is not using SSL with Plex, and is thus transmitting your login token in open text through the hotel network.
Thanks.
Neat trick, I’ve gotten into the habit of tethering it to my own 4g mobile, but performance isn’t always acceptable if I have bad signal!
Interesting timing this thread, just picked up a CC and using it for the first time in anger.
I set my own network up using an Airport Express hard wired into hotel internet. CC can see the internet OK and I can cast web pages from chrome on my laptop to it OK. Casting anything from iOS however doesn’t work … YouTube and Plex both turn the screen black for a bit then fails. Plex content is synced if that matters.
Ideas?
Thanks!
@wonkasan said:
The ASUS WL-330NUL is also great for hotels and other hotspots.
Mine worked great too, until it got stuck in AP mode and will no longer let me access the web management since it isn’t handling DHCP and doesn’t seem to assign itself an IP that I can connect to it on. ASUS Support was useless, as I explained the issue that I cannot access the web management UI and their response was to factory reset it, a process that can only be done through the web management UI! So I now basically have a paperweight and it is pretty useless at that given it’s size.
It only works in scenarios where I can plug into a LAN and don’t need to do anything fancy to get internet access.
