Can Someone Please Explain What Is Going On With My Hotspot Wifi Connection?
Posted on August 9, 2009 by admin
About a week ago I discovered a WIFI hotspot near one of the windows in my house. For the past four or five days I have been using it. It is a NETGEAR connection and it worked very well.
Yesterday I go to log on and the NETGEAR connection is made but when I attempt to use Internet Explorer nothing happens.
This is NOT an encrypted connection nor does it require a password. It is 100% open. The connection is still there and can be made but like I said Internet Explorer will not launch.
This is not a problem with Internet Explorer. Other WIFI connections let me connect.
What the hell is going on with this NETGEAR connection that workded so flawlessly a few days ago?
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Tags: Connection, Hotspot, Netgear, Wifi
August 9, 2009
100 things could have happened.
You may have been piggy backing on a nighbours router.
You could have been useing a temprorary Com Link.
You could have been slipping on an Aircraft Transponder.
the list goes on.
Go to your City Hall and demand that they install a WiFi connection throught the city. It has been done. Put your tax $ to work.
August 9, 2009
I believe that there could be a problem with DHCP settings served to your NIC. Try entering DNS address manually. Alternately, check to see if there is a proxy server listed in Iexplorer that maybe you should not use.
Work your way up to solve the problem. Try ipconfig/all, ping utilities to discover if network connectivity is present all the way to the nearest gateway and if your DNS settings are working. Than move on to higher level applications (explorer, mail).
All the best.
August 9, 2009
If the connection isn’t encrypted, the owner may have either turned on MAC address filtering or could have turned off the DHCP server in their router. Either of which could have stopped you from connecting. And that was probably their intention.
August 9, 2009
am sure the hotspot is just transfer without service
i mean its just the transmet device work but no internet service running on it