I've just recently purchased my 32gb touch and I've found an issue that I'm not sure how to resolve. I'm pretty much a girl geek so I have an idea what I'm doing and I'm stumped so I'm coming here for help... (after searching and not getting any good answers)
Ok, my gym offers free wifi and I can successfully connect via settings and have full signal strength, but when I try to access any pages via Safari I get the error that I'm not connected. I asked the folks at the front desk if there was something going on with the wifi and they had no clue (it's a brand new gym and the kids working there are clueless) but they said that it's happening to a lot of the members... so I'm assuming all touch owners?
Then I was at my mall today and again connected to their free wifi and had the same scenario as above. I walked outside and went to the Apple store and asked the non-genius if there was a secret to getting connected and she told me it just had to do with signal strength and that it just won't work unless there is a strong signal (I have full signal strength on both connections) and suggested we try to connect to the Apple Store wifi which worked instantly.
My only thought is that it has to do something with the authentication web pages that I get when accessing the mall's wifi via laptop. The mall's wireless page pops up on my browser before I'm able to surf or check mail. (same as at Panera etc.) I was unable to get this page to come up using Safari.
Any thoughts on this issue? I'm hoping to stop by Panera at some point this weekend to see if I have any luck there, but was hoping you guys would have the "easy" answer for me.
Thanks for your time and help!!!
-HeatherA
2g 32gb Touch | 5g 60gb Video | 2g 2gb Shuffle | 3g 40gb (retired)
Other household iPods:
3g 20gb (2) | 5g 30gb Video (2)
Ok, my gym offers free wifi and I can successfully connect via settings and have full signal strength, but when I try to access any pages via Safari I get the error that I'm not connected. I asked the folks at the front desk if there was something going on with the wifi and they had no clue (it's a brand new gym and the kids working there are clueless) but they said that it's happening to a lot of the members... so I'm assuming all touch owners?
Then I was at my mall today and again connected to their free wifi and had the same scenario as above. I walked outside and went to the Apple store and asked the non-genius if there was a secret to getting connected and she told me it just had to do with signal strength and that it just won't work unless there is a strong signal (I have full signal strength on both connections) and suggested we try to connect to the Apple Store wifi which worked instantly.
My only thought is that it has to do something with the authentication web pages that I get when accessing the mall's wifi via laptop. The mall's wireless page pops up on my browser before I'm able to surf or check mail. (same as at Panera etc.) I was unable to get this page to come up using Safari.
Any thoughts on this issue? I'm hoping to stop by Panera at some point this weekend to see if I have any luck there, but was hoping you guys would have the "easy" answer for me.
Thanks for your time and help!!!
-HeatherA
2g 32gb Touch | 5g 60gb Video | 2g 2gb Shuffle | 3g 40gb (retired)
Other household iPods:
3g 20gb (2) | 5g 30gb Video (2)