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   Cabel Sasser (cabel@social.panic.com)'s status on Monday, 22-Jun-2026 09:50:59 JST Cabel Sasser

   traveling with the family and trying the UniFi Travel Router!

   it logs into hotel wifi (even captive portals) and creates a new wifi network, with the same name as ours at home. it also sets up a vpn to our home network.

   result: everyone’s devices hopped on wifi, with zero setup! (and i get my NAS)

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 22-Jun-2026 09:50:58 JST Rich Felker

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     @cabel How does it deal with the captive portals?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 22-Jun-2026 10:27:13 JST Rich Felker

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     @cabel That didn't say anything your original post didn't. I was asking specifically *how* it automates bypassing the captive portal.

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     Cabel Sasser (cabel@social.panic.com)'s status on Monday, 22-Jun-2026 10:27:14 JST Cabel Sasser

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias you first connect to the wifi network it generates, which allows it to pass through the captive portal pages.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jun-2026 01:15:57 JST Rich Felker

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     @cabel OK, that explains it. I guess I can understand that, but the part that was interesting to me was the idea of client devices never seeing the captive portal and possibly having their network/browser state messed up by it (like restored tabs getting replaced by login screens).

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     Cabel Sasser (cabel@social.panic.com)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jun-2026 01:15:58 JST Cabel Sasser

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias i didn’t actually ever use the words “automate” or “bypass”, but, to be fair, i did forget a space in “passthrough”. :) it literally *passes* you the captive portal login flow *through* your web browser. (advantage over a android touchscreen: autofill or password fill works as expected if needed.)