Surface RT on college wifi

dave2610

Hey I just recently got a surface RT for dirt cheap, but was quite annoyed to find iss services dont support it or windows phone. Does anybody know how to get around this.

bscm

You'll have to set it up to appear as a device which is supported on the network. Speak to some members of DUCSS or Pirates, they'll be able to help.

endasmail

Will you let me know how ya get on with this as i`m in the same situation

shanefitz360

Haven't tried it, but this should work

1. Download Google Chrome from the App Store
2. Press the menu at the top right
3. Go to tools -> developer tools
4. Small window should pop up at the bottom. Press the settings wheel at the bottom right
5. Go to the 'Overrides section'
6. Check the box 'User Agent'.
7. Change the option under that box to 'other'
8. Type in 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20130331 Firefox/21.0'
9. Check the box 'enable'

Now leave that small window open at the bottom, and try to register for the network. It should just auto register you. Then you can close the window and stay connected.

dave2610

Thanks for the replies. http://blog.secnet.at/?p=473 I am in the middle of trying the second method on this page to spoof mac addresses but I have a tonne of updates to do on my laptop before I can connect to the wifi. Should know by tomorrow whether it will work or not.

endasmail

Would anyone be able to help me out with this problem
Trying all day to do it
It is now officially doing my head in.

dave2610

Still havn't been able to get it to work. Very annoying.

shanefitz360

Out of curiosity, which part of my method didn't work? I don't have the RT so couldn't try it myself. Sorry

dave2610

shanefitz360 wrote: »

Out of curiosity, which part of my method didn't work? I don't have the RT so couldn't try it myself. Sorry

You can't get chrome on the RT. Not supported unfortunately.