UK Hotspots

[360jus]

Can anyone pass on their experiences of using hotspots in the uk.
i have orange wifi access and know i can connect on the iphone at mcdonalds. just interested to hear of your experiences, and other hotspots that will or wont work.....
thanks in advance

J

[360jus]

ok so i could not get the x2 pro to connect at mcdonalds, i had entered my credentials into eye-fi manager but to no avail.....
anyone else???

[Richard_T]

If your talking about using MCDonalds UK who use "the cloud" network.

If you use this service to go online you will need to first enter your details (name/address/email address etc) and then create a username and password.
your account is tied to the mac address of the device you use to sign up with.

So to use an eye fi card for uploads from macdonalds UK ( and other places that use the cloud for access) you need to sign up with the same mac address that your eye-fi card uses, which is impossible to do on a camera, and involves something called mac address spoofing on a P.C or laptop, you need to change your laptops mac address to the same one that your eye fi card uses and then sign up using that mac address, then you need to add that account to your eye fi easy wifi account.

thats the theory, i tried that it didnt work.

[360jus]

If your talking about using MCDonalds UK who use "the cloud" network.

If you use this service to go online you will need to first enter your details (name/address/email address etc) and then create a username and password.
your account is tied to the mac address of the device you use to sign up with.

So to use an eye fi card for uploads from macdonalds UK ( and other places that use the cloud for access) you need to sign up with the same mac address that your eye-fi card uses, which is impossible to do on a camera, and involves something called mac address spoofing on a P.C or laptop, you need to change your laptops mac address to the same one that your eye fi card uses and then sign up using that mac address, then you need to add that account to your eye fi easy wifi account.

thats the theory, i tried that it didnt work.

lol thx for your reply i was sat there thinking quality reply..... i was impressed, until i read your closing statement...... doh
but that was great thank you, hopefully someone will chime in with a work around
j