Mifi Problem.

Terry98

I have got a Huawei E589 Mifi that connects to two mobile phones and a Win10 tablet.

All three connect to the Mifi but the two android phones have no internet connection until I sign into the Mifi using 192.168.1.1 on my tablet. If I don't want to use the tablet and try to sign into 192.168.1.1 using any one of the android phones I still cannot get internet access.

Because I can eventually connect the phones to the internet it seems the Mifi settings are the problem but I cannot work out how to change them.

AndyPix

When you say "sign into 192.168.1.1", do you mean you are actually pointing your browser to there, or are automatiacally redirected ?
And how does this sign in present ?
Do you mean it is a splash page where you have to enter password etc ?


What happens on the phones if you try to go to 192.168.1.1 - what error does it say ?

Terry98

Thanks for your reply.

Yes I am actually pointing my browser on the Win10 tablet to 192.168.1.1 If I do not point it there I can see in Wifi settings that I am connected to the Mifi because it says 'Connected no internet' I get the same phrase on both my android phones.

So as soon as I go to 192.168.1.1 on the tablet it asks me to sign in with user name and password and I am then connected to the internet and my phones are also connected!

If I do the above on either of the android phones it allows me to sign in,does not show any error message but also does not connect to the internet.

AndyPix

Hmm ..




Ok, so after you have entered your credentials on the splash page on one of the phones, what does the browser do then ?
Stay on that page , or forward you to another page ?


Please bear with me, im trying to wrap my brain around what might be happening here

Terry98

When I sign in on the phone it just gives me the options Home,Stats,SMS,Updates and Settings but I am not connected to the internet.

Although I am using a 3 data sim for roaming I am beginning to think it might be 3 trying to restrict me to only using one device. I had a problem last year when I was using an ordinary sim for data but read they do not restrict roaming on data sims so bought a prepaid data sim.I registered this sim using the tablet!