[X4U] connecting to hotel wireless network

[☪ubeistan]

That's a toughie, opening a browser usually leads to the hotel's  
provider's site to login with the prepaid card from the hotel.  
Thinking out loud a bit, throwing out some dumb ideers to brainstorm:  
(1) does he get the same result with multiple browsers? (2) Is the  
Network Pref locked to Automatic? (3) Has the iBook connected  
wirelessly in hotels before or is this a first?

On Aug 28, 2005, at 18:04 , Samantha Cornell wrote:

> My father has called, from the road, and is having problems  
> connecting to wireless networks at hotels.  He is running 10.2 on a  
> G4 iBook with an airport card.  They regularly use the airport card  
> at home, so I doubt that is the problem.
>
> He is able to select the network in the airport menu, and it shows  
> a strong signal, but Safari is unable to resolve any URLs.  I did  
> have him change his location to "automatic" in his network  
> preferences (it had been set to Comcast), but it did not help.
>
> I'm stuck here, and he's frustrated.  I know that Comcast  
> configured the iBook for their network, and I'm wondering if they  
> would have set it up in a way that somehow makes this difficult.
>
> I would greatly appreciate any pointers.  They've had alot of  
> problems with this Ibook lately, and are threatening to go back to  
> Dell (ugh...)  They have had to send it in twice in the past month  
> for logic board replacements, and the second time Apple forgot to  
> put the batter back in, and then took two weeks to ship the  
> battery.  I would love to help them get online on the road with  
> this, I want them to have a good experience.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Samantha
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