Thread: Can you log into public WiFi hotspots?
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2007-07-19 , 18:35
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Originally Posted by sjshephard View Post
I've just bought a Nokia 770 and it connects to my BT Home Hub without problems. I can get onto the internet from anywhere in my house.

However outside, in my local Starbucks or in the vicinity of BT Openzone enabled phoneboxes, for example, is another matter. I can connect to the hotspot, it's in Infrastructure mode rather than Ad Hoc mode, I get non-local IP addresses back and my default router is set to something other than (none) or 0.0.0.0

What I can't get to is the webpage to log in to the WiFi service with my userid. I get the Network Error that others here also seem to be getting.

I'm creating a new thread for this because I'm not asking for help here, as such. I just want a bit of hope.

Is there anybody out there who is successfully using a Nokia 770 to get WiFi access in this way? Not in your home, not in your office, but from a public hotspot where you'd normally have to log into a web page to get access?

If you did, and you had to do something to get it working it would be nice to know what that was, but for now I just want to know that this is possible - and that I shouldn't just give up right now and send my 770 back to the shop.

Cheers


You sure can hope.

I use the Nokia 770 ( with the last great Nokia released OS ) wherever I go. Using this I have latched on to multiple unsecured private networks and other such WiFi connections available. I have also used Nokia 770 with my phones, a Nokia 3650 and an Nokia 6682 on T- Mobile ).

I can use it at my work where we have a Linksys Wireless Router. I do not use any WEP keys here. The Nokia 770 connected effortlessly the first time I tried.

As far as Starbucks and other such places are concerned I think you need some kind off account ( Username and Password ) or at ( least some more information ) with them. Ad-Hoc connection is when you are connecting from one Computer to another. When you connect directly to a Router it is Infrastructure connection. So I think it is alright if you see infrastructure connection when you try to access Starbucks or BT Openzone.

Also, I have successfully connected and surfed the Internet as much as I wanted for so many months in a Mall that had an Apple Computer Store where they allowed public WiFi Access ( the connection itself was called Apple Public Wifi ).
Last edited by Arjun; 2007-07-20 at 12:16.