Knot

What am I missing?
My Wi-fi works perfectly at home but when in my coffee shop which has
free wi-fi nothing updates. Wi-fi in settings seems to show that I am
connected to the appropriate service.

JKConey

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What am I missing?
My Wi-fi works perfectly at home but when in my coffee shop which has
free wi-fi nothing updates. Wi-fi in settings seems to show that I am
connected to the appropriate service.
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Click forget, and let it find it again. Then try reset network settings
to default. If that doesn't work then reboot device.

Your Name

In article <j8bts7$f3h$1@dont-email.me>, "JKConey" <jkconey@verizon.net> wrote:

> "Knot" wrote in message
> news:MPG.29136877296c176b989692@news.eternal-september.org...
>
>
>
> What am I missing?
> My Wi-fi works perfectly at home but when in my coffee shop which has
> free wi-fi nothing updates. Wi-fi in settings seems to show that I am
> connected to the appropriate service.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
>
> Click forget, and let it find it again. Then try reset network settings
> to default. If that doesn't work then reboot device.

Despite being advertised as "free", many such places make you buy a cofee
or whatever and then give you a time-limited password. Without the
password, you can't use their network.

If it is actually a free network, then it could be overloaded with lots of
people downloading massive movies, etc. or has limits for each users
bandwidth.

Michelle Steiner

In article <yourname-2810110929010001@203-118-185-181.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz>,
yourname@yourisp.com (Your Name) wrote:

> Despite being advertised as "free", many such places make you buy a
> cofee or whatever and then give you a time-limited password. Without the
> password, you can't use their network.

Usually, they advertise it as being free to customers. If you don't buy
something from them, you're not a customer.

--
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People's Democratic Republic is to Democracy.

Ed Anson

On 10/27/11 9:09 AM, Knot wrote:
>
>
> What am I missing?
> My Wi-fi works perfectly at home but when in my coffee shop which has
> free wi-fi nothing updates. Wi-fi in settings seems to show that I am
> connected to the appropriate service.

It is very common to find that a login is required to use the WiFi. As
some others have mentioned, the login sometimes requires a password.
Most of the places I frequent do NOT require a password, but DO require
a login. Just open Safari to view the login page, accept the terms of
service, then close Safari and do whatever else you planned.

Knot

In article <i-udnZdTOIBfSjTTnZ2dnUVZ_v-dnZ2d@giganews.com>,
EdAnson@comcast.net says...
>
> On 10/27/11 9:09 AM, Knot wrote:
> >
> >
> > What am I missing?
> > My Wi-fi works perfectly at home but when in my coffee shop which has
> > free wi-fi nothing updates. Wi-fi in settings seems to show that I am
> > connected to the appropriate service.
>
> It is very common to find that a login is required to use the WiFi. As
> some others have mentioned, the login sometimes requires a password.
> Most of the places I frequent do NOT require a password, but DO require
> a login. Just open Safari to view the login page, accept the terms of
> service, then close Safari and do whatever else you planned.

Yes - that was it.
It's now sorted.
Thanks to all who replied.