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Old Aug 6, 2013 | 7:22 am
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Originally Posted by nevansm
My suggestion (which I've also suggested to various hotel groups), the ability to add X amount of MAC addresses to my profile as a UC member When I turn one of those devices on, boom right to the internet with no authentication, this solves the problem of "I don't want to authenticate all the time" for members.

For people who aren't members, they either get a code for the day or (like AC clubs) there's some sort of authentication mechanism. At MLL's, as a *G when I enter the club my BP is scanned, then I just enter my flight number and last name and am authenticated. These are very simple things to do and could be implemented within a matter of days. They're already doing something similar with in-flight wi-fii and the captive portal.

Are you listening UA?!?

Note for those who aren't familiar with what a MAC Address is: "A media access control address (MAC address) is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications on the physical network segment."
Most people have no idea what a MAC address is.

Originally Posted by UATexasFlyer
Ahhh, the good ol' days. That would be too logical.
Even Lufthansa stopped that in their lounges. You guys need to move on.
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