Can’t get to sign-in pages with travel router at hotels

Hello -

I just purchased a Gl-inet travel router (GR-AR300M) so I can set up a camera to watch my dog in my hotel room, just for an hour here and there while I work out, etc.

Once a cleaning person came into the room despite the Do Not Disturb sign and my dog almost got out; I leave her tied, but all the same would like to keep an eye on her (e.g., she very rarely barks but I want to be considerate of neighbors, etc).

Frustratingly, I’m getting stuck - after setting up the router in repeater mode, I get as far as choosing the hotel connection. But then I can never enter my room number and password because when I open the browser it doesn’t take me to the sign-in page from the hotel. There’s no internet connection yet so the page never appears.

I’ve looked at YouTube explanations like this one, and the guy never seems to have this problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjULfYPLo4s

Thanks so much for any help you can provide!!

Maybe you should setup your router in router mode instead of repeater mode in the first place?