Connecting to public wifi hotspots

[JD]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-02-18 at 22:00 -0700, JD wrote:
> > Take your Ubuntu 12.10 (updated as of say 3 weeks ago), to
> > a Starbuck's hotspot and see if your FF will display Starbuck's
> > login web page. If it does, please do not login. Instead
> > break into a Terminal window and see if you can ping or dig.
>

> ping or dig *what*? The key is to carefully dig and ping and *note what
> exactly happens* when you dig and ping *certain specific things* after
> having first *established and noted down* the parameters the local
> hotspot has delivered, if any. That way you get a baseline for what your
> computer is trying to do. That way you have FACTS.
>
> Go and get the SPECIFIC FACTS, using the SPECIFIC TOOLS that have been
> suggested to you by a whole bunch of people who clearly have an ACTUAL
> CLUE, and MAYBE, just MAYBE, someone will be able to help you.
>
> Regards, K.
>

I have already answered this!!!
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