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"free public wifi" is not an internet connection but something windows generates
i think i read about this first in another post here...

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"free public wifi" is usually a windows machine that is infected with a trojan. It creates an ad-hoc network and when people connct it tries to spread the trojan.

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I was walking through the Las Vegas airport last week when I spotted a guy working on a N810. I sat down and pulled out my N800. We both had no problem whatsoevr connecting to the FREE wifi connection offered at the Vegas airport. Had a nice conversation with him. He was using the N810 as it came out of the box - didn't even realize he could add more applications! I filled him in.

I have noticed in the past that sometimes I have problems connecting to airport, hotel, coffee shop etc open wifi networks. Usually if I just try again and again I eventually get in.

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I have had the same results at shopping malls, Bob. I'm betting the multiple irregular surfaces and distances are a large factor. I would think more repeaters would help, especially in malls and airports.

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I just recently discovered a site called jiwire.com which displays both free and pay sites on a google map. It looks impressive, but after looking at a few of the places they had on the map, some of those places no longer existed or offered any type of wifi. It's just one of many sites listing free wifi access, but I don't know of any others off the top of my head.

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I was just down in Palm Beach at PBI where they have "complimentary free wifi". I could easily connect to it but the micro B browser kept getting server errors. I was never able to reach the web. Despite trying to surf at a few other spots since I had my n800, I have never been able to with anything but my home router. In the next couple days I will make an effort to seek out known public spots to see if this is a problem with OS2008.

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Didn't bother reading all the replies so sorry if someone already said it:

The power saving feature doesn't play nice with all wlan. For example at home I can't use it at all because the N800 simply refuses to work. Sure it connects but that's it.. can't load web pages, can't do ****..

As soon as I disable it everything works perfect. In the middle mode it works for first few web sites and then stops..

So the next time some free wifi spot doesn't work for you try to disable power saving.. maybe it'll work then.

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That's probably the one setting I didn't play with while wanting to max the battery life. I will give that a shot. Thanks.

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if you suspect your not getting a connection to the internet just ping in xterminal.

"ping -w 60 www.google.com"

This is basic but ping is the command, -w is an argument says to exit the ping program after the next number which is in seconds, 60 obviously is the number of seconds for the -w argument, and www.google.com is the destination you wanna ping.

Since this is a network issue there are a whole slew of network command tools, I don't know if they are compiled for ARM OMAP but you can always compile them yourselves. Once I get a NIT i'll get all of the ones I sometimes use on my lappie to work.

PS N800 or N810?