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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / October 2006WiFi connections away from home
I just got back from a many week trip where WiFi was available in almost all the motels. My Mac (OS 10.4.8) failed to connect in almost all of them. In a few, I didn't see a network, so they made sense. In others, I had a strong signal but didn't get any kind of connection. At my last stop, I brought up Safari and got the motel network's login page, which immediately froze. I brought up Firefox and had no problem. Now I wonder if Firefox would have worked in the other places, too. Any experience out there?  Signature+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Brian Gordon -->briang@panix.com<-- brian.gordon at cox dot net | + Bass: without a local chorus at the moment + -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- > I just got back from a many week trip where WiFi was available in almost all > the motels. My Mac (OS 10.4.8) failed to connect in almost all of them. In [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Any experience out there? Have used iBook G4, OS 10.3.9, Netscape 7.2 to access WiFi connections in at least a dozen, probably closer to three dozen hotels and airport concourses around the U.S. over the past 6 months -- some of them free services, some requiring a password number which the front desk gives you, some paid for online with a credit card -- and I don't recall ever being unable to connect without trouble. Sorry, can't speak for Safari -- just don't happen to use it. > I just got back from a many week trip where WiFi was available in almost all > the motels. My Mac (OS 10.4.8) failed to connect in almost all of them. In [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Any experience out there? WiFi has worked for me consistently -- without failure -- in scores of hotels. I use Safari almost exclusively, and always the latest OS X. Davoud Signatureusenet *at* davidillig dawt com >> I just got back from a many week trip where WiFi was available in almost all >> the motels. My Mac (OS 10.4.8) failed to connect in almost all of them. In [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Davoud Agreed - WiFi works virtually everywhere and is pretty "bulletproof".....and contrary to so many "opinions", Safari is light years better than Firefox. Firefox is the most over-rated, limited product championed by those who spend all their time complaining about products that are mature and work perfectly well....... Seems to me that folks who have all this trouble aren't telling the whole story OR don't know how to set up and use a computer......more likely the latter...... I read these "complaints" and try as I might, I can't duplicate the "problems" reported - one wonders....... PC > I just got back from a many week trip where WiFi was available in almost all > the motels. My Mac (OS 10.4.8) failed to connect in almost all of them. In [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Any experience out there? If you have an older laptop, one with 801.11b instead of 802.11g, it might be that your laptop could see the g networks but couldn't connect to them. You might consider getting something like MacStumbler, iStumbler, or KisMac. Google these names for the web sites. I like iStumbler, since MacStumbler doesn't seem to work on Intel machines, and KisMac wants to install a driver. Once you get one of these pieces of software, you can see what wireless networks exist, and which ones are open for use. |
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