Kind of an odd question. My girlfriend is up Maine and has her macbook with her. They went to a cafe in town, and she tried to get on their wifi network. She connected to the network, and her wireless strength indicator had full internet signal, but when she opened safari, it said it wasnt connected to the internet. I looked around but couldnt find anything like this. anyone got a solution? and I did have her ask, no WAP or WEP
Not meant to be an insult, or question your tech level of knowledge...
Did she turn on Safari after connecting or before?
I keep my Airport off when I am connected to my LAN. So if I go out, to a coffee shop, I have to turn on Airport. If I forget and start opening Safari, etc it of course does not work. So I then turn on Airport, connect it. After that I find that sometimes I need to close Safari to get it to recognize that the Airport is now on.
It could also be that the coffee shop Wifi tosses you to "their" home page, and it was just down for some reason.
Some free Wifi spots have timers that only allow connections for 2 hours at a time. The router tosses you to a page that you click, "Agree" on, that starts the timer. That page could have been down...
