First get yout LAN working without being connected to the main WiFi-connection. Just your local devices and your local router (if it needs to be wireless) or a local switch (if all devices can connect via Ethernet-cable). That is, turn off the connection to the apartments network and the devices to see each other.
Then connect to the apartments WiFi and see what happens if you access Internet from your devices.
Hello,
i recently moved into an apartment that includes wifi as a utility and there is no other internet service available. I connect to an open wifi connection then reach a login page where I log in. The page also lets me manage the devices/mac addresses that I have logged in.
I would like to use this main wifi connection as the internet connection for my own LAN so that my devices can see each other without being on the apartment wifi. I already have 2 routers, a TP link Archer C9 and an Asus router that I used at my previous apartment. I logged in to the wifi and added the TP link router mac address to the list.
I set up the TP Link for WDS mode and disabled its DHCP server (as instructed at TP link's support site). I then connected the WAN port of the Asus router to one of the 4 ports on the tp link. This does allow my devices to connect to the asus router and access the interent, but each device still hits the login page when connecting for the first time. Is this supposed to be happening? I would assume the TP link router is the only device that would technically need to be on the main wifi's device list so that it can feed the internet connection to the Asus router. Is there some other step or setup I should use to make this work best?
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