HELP-Using the Cradlepoint 350 with a hotel ethernet cable

surfdog · EVDO Newbie Joined: 28 Sep 2009 Posts: 2

Hello,

Forgive me my newbie question, but I recently bought a Cradlepoint CTR350 from the 3G store with software version 2.42 (IIRC). It works great with my USB modem, and this is how I use it 99% of the time. However, I will be traveling to another country in the near future, and rather than rack up huge bills on my Sprint USB modem, I would prefer to hook my Cradlepoint via Ethernet cable at the hotel. I checked and the hotel I will be staying at has an ethernet cabled internet access. Just to make sure it would work, I tried setting it up home by plugging my home DSL modem into the Cradlepoint via ethernet cable. So far nothing I have tried seems to work. I can log into the admin screen, but I am unable to launch an internet connection.

Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks

im_electronic · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 2:05 pm Post subject:

does your DLS Require logon? what router did you use before?

fi your DSL does teh automatic setup, as in no login required, unplug your DSL modem for 5-10 minutes, then plug it in, while attache to the CTR.

if that doens't work head to the clone MAC address section on the CTR and enter the WAN MAC from your previous router(label underneath)

most hotels use a MAC based authentication, so just make sure you connect your CTR to their cable, and pay/authorize/access their internet usin your CTR.

surfdog · EVDO Newbie Joined: 28 Sep 2009 Posts: 2

My DSL does require log-in. I am using a Linksys router and it does the logging in via the admin panel, but in the past I had to log in with Win Poet. I did not see anything in the CTR350 admin panel that allows me to log in to the DSL connection.

im_electronic · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 3:45 pm Post subject:

WAN connection>PPPoE should be there

EDIT:

try just going from the linksys LAN port into your CTR, this will be closer to whats happening at the hotel

SlyFerret · EVDO Heavy User Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 127

I just got a CTR-350 yesterday. One thing I noticed is that the ethernet port on it was set, by default, to be an "output" that you could connect to a network switch and attach other wired computers to your LAN.

There is a menu item in the router config interface that lets you toggle the ethernet port between LAN and WAN.

Make sure it's set to WAN mode so that it will act as an "input".

-SF

(As a network admin, using "input" and "output" in this way makes me cringe, but I can't think of a better way to describe what I'm trying to say right now.)

SlyFerret · EVDO Heavy User Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 127