rskelley9

About

I recently relocated for new employment. I've been staying in an extended stay hotel for about 3 weeks now. The hotel I'm staying in gives its guests free Wifi access. However, it requires users to accept terms and conditions on a splash page via browser interface before they can use the network. This makes it difficult to use my Chromecast with the network, as it doesn't have a means of accessing that splash page. While I could call the IT help line, I decided to explore a work-around.

Like many networks, my hotel's network attempts to improve security by using MAC address filtering. Luckily, Mac OS X (10.4 - 10.10) makes it very easy to spoof your network card's MAC address.

Here's how to add a devices like Chromecast, AppleTV, Roku to a wireless network that requires a browser to authenticate and accept terms and conditions.

Before You Start

rock3r

#!/usr/bin/python

# License for any modification to the original (linked below):
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42):
# Sebastiano Poggi and Daniele Conti wrote this file. As long as you retain 
# this notice you can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day,
# and you think this stuff is worth it, you can buy us a beer in return.

import argparse, sys, subprocess, tempfile

devunwired

/**
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 *
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 * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
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