Strange wifi issue. Can't connect to non apple

[Buffrey007]

My MacBook Air (about 4 years old) has started to not connect to public and private wifi which isn't ran by an apple extreme. I say this because my home and the Apple Store it works fine but at other people's houses or free wifi places it doesn't.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Running laterst OSX and have tried a couple things With the DNS but I'm not mega techy but am decent enough.

It's hard to test though as it works at home so any changes I make I need to be somewhere else to be sure.

 

[IWT]

A warm welcome to Mac-Forums.

I've come up with a couple of sites that detail very similar problems and offer suggestions on how to solve them. The solutions are accompanied by diagrams in one of them and neither sites looks too "techie".

https://superuser.com/questions/207...public-wifi-hotspots-but-works-fine-otherwise
https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/ans...ot_connection_issues_on_public_wi-fi_networks

Gives these a read and see if they help. In any case, please post back.

Ian

 

[Buffrey007]

Thanks Ian, I've tried the renew lease and hardcoded dns. It's just the testing that I struggle with as it's working at home. I'll give it a go when I can. These links are good but it's not just public wifi but also other people's private ones.

Just a weird issue that has come about all by itself.