Preske wrote

[COLOR=#000000]Normally I should get a login-page.

That ISP hotspot is a Captive Portal network, which requires every wireless client device to authenticate itself with usernames and passwords through the login-page. Access Points or routers, however, cannot log in the page and do the authentication themselves because they have no web browsers...

Normally, you need a laptop or PC to act as your internet gateway in this case as fotodamaris said.

However, some hotspot ISP sets liberal restrictions, you can try your luck with Repeater Mode as below.

Hotspot Wi-FI)))((( WA7210N in repeater mode ))))your laptops

If your laptop can be redirected to the login-page, it works


Check this post if you like to know more details about Captive Portal
http://forum.tp-link.com/showthread.php?73378-Can-not-connect-to-the-public-wifi-with-an-quot-I-Agree-quot-button-to-continue-to-the-intern&highlight=portal

Thank you for the explanation. I'll try this out asap. If it fails, I guess I'll have to go with the outdoor antenna.

I'm back with a update.

As suggested, I tried running it in repeater mode. I'm almost certain that it is not possible to connect to the ISP hotspots with a repeater. I have tried many times with several hotspots, both commerial (telenet hotspot) as customer (telenet homespot) The signal wasn't superstable, but there are other commercial hotspots in the neighbourhood I can connect too that have an even weaker signal, so I very much doubt that's an issue.

I'm currently using a wifi adapter that barely gets signal indoors, so there should be no reason the repeater shouldn't work outdoors and elevated.

I'd like to thank for the help.