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Yenolo
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Hi,
I live in an appartment that has internet accesss provided. The access point is in the form of an RJ45 wall box. When I moved in a few months ago I installed a TP-Link TL-WA701ND wireless access point with a TP-Link USB wireless adapter on my PC. There was no username and password required to get onto the internet; just the normal WAP security on the AP. All has worked fine, I've been using my PC and iPhone on the Internet up until today when they changed the system and now it requires a username and password to get access to the Internet. It was no problem to setup my XP based PC with the username/password details and connect to the Internet again. The trouble came when I wanted to use my iPhone 4 on the wireless network connection and access the Internet and because of this new username/password required it won't allow me to connect to the Internet. My phone can still see the AP but there doesn't seem to be anywhere on the phone to put an Internet access username/password. I thought it would be great if the new username/password could be entered into the AP, then anything that has authority to connect to the AP automatically gets Internet access but there is nowhere in the AP software setup to put such details, like you can with an ADSL router.
Does anyone have any ideas how to overcome this problem? I've got a spare unused ADSL router from when I had a Telkom ADSL line in my last house but this is not an incoming phone line I'm dealing with here, just an RJ45 connection that goes down to a switch in the basement Internet room. From what I've been able to find on Google I believe this is new system is called a captive portal. Any help would be really appreaciated!
Okay, since posting the above story I done some reseach on the Web and it looks like I need to get a broadband router, as oposed to the present access point I'm using. By the look of it I can then enter the ISP user name and password into the new router instead of just into my PC. That way all my wireless devices will be able to have Internet access. Am I right?
I live in an appartment that has internet accesss provided. The access point is in the form of an RJ45 wall box. When I moved in a few months ago I installed a TP-Link TL-WA701ND wireless access point with a TP-Link USB wireless adapter on my PC. There was no username and password required to get onto the internet; just the normal WAP security on the AP. All has worked fine, I've been using my PC and iPhone on the Internet up until today when they changed the system and now it requires a username and password to get access to the Internet. It was no problem to setup my XP based PC with the username/password details and connect to the Internet again. The trouble came when I wanted to use my iPhone 4 on the wireless network connection and access the Internet and because of this new username/password required it won't allow me to connect to the Internet. My phone can still see the AP but there doesn't seem to be anywhere on the phone to put an Internet access username/password. I thought it would be great if the new username/password could be entered into the AP, then anything that has authority to connect to the AP automatically gets Internet access but there is nowhere in the AP software setup to put such details, like you can with an ADSL router.
Does anyone have any ideas how to overcome this problem? I've got a spare unused ADSL router from when I had a Telkom ADSL line in my last house but this is not an incoming phone line I'm dealing with here, just an RJ45 connection that goes down to a switch in the basement Internet room. From what I've been able to find on Google I believe this is new system is called a captive portal. Any help would be really appreaciated!
Okay, since posting the above story I done some reseach on the Web and it looks like I need to get a broadband router, as oposed to the present access point I'm using. By the look of it I can then enter the ISP user name and password into the new router instead of just into my PC. That way all my wireless devices will be able to have Internet access. Am I right?
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