Bypass splash screen / walled garden

[Mac]

As we all know that the eye-fi card dosen't work thru hotels that require you to accept their terms, click on "I agree" on a splash screen, etc; however a possible work around may be to get your eye-fi cards mac adress registered to the hotel's internet provider.

To do this you could use a laptop to "spoof" (http://www.klcconsulting.net/smac/)the mac address of your eye-fi card & once you are recognized by the internet provider, you should not be re-directed back to the "I agree" page.

Make sure you change your mac address back or power off your pc before trying the eye-fi card.
It should connect unless they use cookies or their router is blocking ports.

It will be awhile before I can try this, so if anyone would like to give it a try, please post your results.

[customsnow]

I just tried this and can confirm that this worked for me on my school network. i have been trying to get my card on my the schools network all semester and this finally did it thanks

[Vectrexer]

Cool suggestion tip! Thanks!

[MadDawgJ]

Yeah, Plus 1 from me

Great idea and it works

[TAB83]

Anyone know of any free software that can do this?

[360jus]

do we need to be at the hotspot location to do this or can it be done by registering off site?

[michaelk]

cool tip- thanks

but even better if you want to help out the next guy (and yourself if you ever check into the hotel again later)-

you can report the hotspot to easywifi and they will add it to the 'easywifi network' that the eyefi cards use:

http://www.easywifi.com/new-provider
Basically they need you to save them login webpages, then fill out a form on the website and attach the saved pages- but if you have a couple extra minutes and already have the laptop out futzing on their network- maybe it's not so much to do.

once they have it in their system then any eyefi card with hotspot access can get on without jumping through the hoops.

(easywifi is pretty amazing technology- they piggyback onto DNS information when you first connect to the network- somehow the card talks to easy wifi and then the easy wifi server sends the card instructions on how to login)

This is all how the cards login to panera, mcdonalds, etc, without user intervention.

[TAB83]

you can report the hotspot to easywifi and they will add it to the 'easywifi network' that the eyefi cards use:

Very cool, I did not know that but will definitely keep this in mind in the future!

[michaelk]

one qualifier = "when they have it in their system"-

easywifi is some pretty amazing technology. I downloaded the app they have for android and i was amazed how many free wifi access points it gets me into with zero effort on my part. Mcdonalds, panera, borders, hotels, tons of open points I never thought to look for, etc. And the way they do it all server based by DNS rather then storing some giant database on the device is pretty genius.

BUT they seem to also be a small little start up that is overwelmed. They seem to be months and months behind at mapping access points they already have. (As an example you can still log in fine at most any mcdonalds but many of them are missing on their maps). So I'm not sure how quickly they add new login stuff. Hopefully the maps just happen to be lowest priority and so they will add new networks more quickly.

[MikeV]

DeviceScape/Easy WiFi has actually been around for a good long time. Their service has been integrated into all kinds of embedded systems that connect via WiFi, both for the purpose of automatically logging into hotspots that require authentication (i.e. you pay for access through a company and want to use your browserless device on their hotspots), and for getting into "walled garden"/terms of use hotspots.

For major providers like AT&T, it's entirely possible that Easy WiFi may just not have all of their hotspots mapped... but since AT&T likely uses the same authentication on all of their hotspots, your card will probably still connect there. It should also be noted that in the US, the Eye-Fi hotspot feature includes not only Easy WiFi, but ALL AT&T hotspots. So if you have the hotspot option, any hotspot on AT&T's map should work with your card, even if it's not on Easy WiFi's.

[michaelk]

DeviceScape/Easy WiFi has actually been around for a good long time. Their service has been integrated into all kinds of embedded systems that connect via WiFi, both for the purpose of automatically logging into hotspots that require authentication (i.e. you pay for access through a company and want to use your browserless device on their hotspots), and for getting into "walled garden"/terms of use hotspots.

For major providers like AT&T, it's entirely possible that Easy WiFi may just not have all of their hotspots mapped... but since AT&T likely uses the same authentication on all of their hotspots, your card will probably still connect there. It should also be noted that in the US, the Eye-Fi hotspot feature includes not only Easy WiFi, but ALL AT&T hotspots. So if you have the hotspot option, any hotspot on AT&T's map should work with your card, even if it's not on Easy WiFi's.

Yep it still logs you in fine just the map isn't updated.
the map is generated by the 'hive' (whatever the term is for end users). Basically when a smartphone using their software logs into a network it sends them the GPS coordinates. The problem is they took their servers that process the data offline sometime apparently around December and put them back up like a month ago. They still are way behind. Seems they have BILLIONS OF TRANSACTIONS backlogged. (So they have PILES OF users- good for them)

Now I'm not a computer science major or anything. But seems to me if your new server takes over a month to process about 3-4 months of data then it seems undersized. So even once they catch up they're likely to get overwhelmed with increasing users quickly.

I love the service but they come off as amatuerish that they are offline for months. Then seems like 2 guys in a garage running a 500 dollar PC from staples as their server on a DSL line when they can't catch up for months. Don't the 'big guns' just through more hardware at such issues? Sometimes even just paying amazon and having them crank it up?

At the same time they just disabled their network sharing feature where you could send friends your access point info. Still haven't turned that back on.

And their website is bugridden. (Everyone is from afganistan because regardless of what country and timezone you select it reverts to the first one on the list- lol)

So they just dont present themselves well. The actual service rocks but they LOOK like they are overwhelmed.

So with all that I'm not sure how quickly they respond to requests to manually add new walled garden hotspots.

[samlauncher]

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[yommytec]

Easywifi is a wonderful technology. I have had good success with it. I think you should download the Android application. The application can get you into a couple of free wifi access points without you having to do anything special.