Leo, I can’t connect to my hotel’s wireless with my Win 7 laptop. It’s happened twice at different places.
I can with the iPad. After it connects, a browser page pops up, asking me to agree to the terms. After I check the box, the browser closes and I’m on wireless. But for some reason, using Win 7, that browser doesn’t come up, but a bubble note says to click for browser; nothing happens. I tried disabling Norton’s with the same results. Many providers of free, open hotspots force you to agree to terms of service before they allow you to access their internet. It’s a legal issue: they need to cover themselves in case people misuse or abuse their service and somehow hold them liable for it.
Sometimes that can get in the way. Wireless internet in WiFi hotspots makes for a convenient connection. To connect to the wireless internet, you need proximity, a little hardware, and permission.
As there is no better location for consumable content than the Internet, being able to connect to a Wi-Fi network so you can access the Internet is a necessity. IPad Wi-Fi connection to use a.
If you connect without a password to an open Wi-Fi hotspot and can see anything at all, it's not a secure connection. Adding a wireless access point to extend your network's range can be confusing. Many routers come with wireless capability, but you only need one router. When scanning for wireless connections, you may find several that are unknown, yet appear open and available.
Using them is risky. Posted: November 13, 2013 in: Shortlink: TAGS. I have a similar issue with my Dell Latitude E5500 and I’ve found a workaround. Basically, mine will not connect at all, despite clearing cache, flushing DNS, other browsers, reboots, resets – nothing worked.
I then tried looking at the default gateway and realised is is a DNS issue with this useless machine. I fixed it like this: Windows key & R (Run), Type in CMD, Type in IPCONFIG. Somewhere in the listed text will be an IP address labelled as Default Gateway.
Type this address into your Browser address bar and hit Enter – it has worked everytime since I discovered this. In most cases the address is something like 10.0.0.1 or 192.168.1.254.
I wonder too, perhaps some people aren’t getting a default browser to pop-up with this interstitial page (I learned a new word today, thanks Leo!) because maybe they’ve inadvertently installed/uninstalled a browser, which can wreck the default browser on that computer/laptop. I know in my office, if anyone upgrades their Adobe Flash or Reader, sometimes they accidentally forget to uncheck the “Install Google Chrome” box (grrrr, don’t get me started on that annoying setting) and it’s only afterward that they realize they need to uninstall Chrome. Unfortunately, by this time it may have changed their default browser and I believe the uninstall process doesn’t change the default browser back to anything. I’m going from memory and that’s how it used to be.
Apparently I’ve trained the office personnel properly as it’s been awhile since anyone in the has done that. I recently had this problem at two hotels in two different places. My homepage is set to Google, so the hotel (interstitial) page would not come up despite being connected to the Internet via the hotel WiFi at two hotels in two different states. I really needed this to use my work computer. Because I do have an education and background in working with computers and networking I was really frustrated and stressed out that I couldn’t figure it out!
The help desk/IT person I called at hotel #1 in Las Vegas and on the Strip offered no assistance and did not resolve the issue. The help person at hotel #2 in San Diego who saved me told me to go to a web page that you can not log into (now, thanks to the explanations here I know he meant to not go to an https/SSL page, which Google as my homepage appears to be; hey, Silicon Valley, maybe that’s why he knew).
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