Connecting to public wifi hotspots

[Ric Moore]

On 02/19/2013 12:38 AM, JD wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au
> <mailto:kauer at biplane.com.au>> wrote:
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>     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.
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>
>     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!!!

I betcha Starbucks either has a fancy login page that uses flash or, 
like MS Money, you have to be running Windows in order to get in at all. 
I'm betting it's flash that you haven't enabled in FF whereas Chrome has 
built-in flash support.


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