Free WiFi Connection OK but no internet access

[Guest Roger-S]

Have searched these forums but not found an answer so hoping somone can shine some light on my problem. I have a ZTE-Blade (San Francisco) running the Japanese Jellyfish RLS4-Lite ROM, have it configured to use WiFi with my home router and everything works as I would expect, using the WiFi for internet access whenever I connect to my router. However, when out and about, I've successfully connected to a couple of open WiFi hotspots, one in a local pub and the other in a B&B we have stayed at. I can connect to the WiFi access point just fine but when I try to access the web, check email, sign into Google, etc. I get a message such as "cannot connect to server" or similar that indicates I have no internet access. As soon as I drop the WiFi connection and use mobile internet access (I'm currently using up the free 100Mb that came with the SIM when I bought the phone) then all works OK. I can't see any WiFi settings to fiddle with so it suggests to me a restriction on the routers I'm connecting to but this means I can't rely on acccess via free hotspots when travelling around. Do I need to install some sort of App before I can use free WiFi ? I wouldn't have thought so but any suggestions what the problem might be ?

[Guest isambard]

Have searched these forums but not found an answer so hoping somone can shine some light on my problem. I have a ZTE-Blade (San Francisco) running the Japanese Jellyfish RLS4-Lite ROM, have it configured to use WiFi with my home router and everything works as I would expect, using the WiFi for internet access whenever I connect to my router. However, when out and about, I've successfully connected to a couple of open WiFi hotspots, one in a local pub and the other in a B&B we have stayed at. I can connect to the WiFi access point just fine but when I try to access the web, check email, sign into Google, etc. I get a message such as "cannot connect to server" or similar that indicates I have no internet access. As soon as I drop the WiFi connection and use mobile internet access (I'm currently using up the free 100Mb that came with the SIM when I bought the phone) then all works OK. I can't see any WiFi settings to fiddle with so it suggests to me a restriction on the routers I'm connecting to but this means I can't rely on acccess via free hotspots when travelling around. Do I need to install some sort of App before I can use free WiFi ? I wouldn't have thought so but any suggestions what the problem might be ?

do you use static ip at home? if so, you need to configure the wifi to grab network configuration from dhcp.

[Guest Roger-S]

do you use static ip at home? if so, you need to configure the wifi to grab network configuration from dhcp.

My home router is set up as a DHCP server so when I set up WiFi on my Blade, I just went into the WiFi Settings, saw my router, selected it and put in the WPA key. Didn't configure a fixed IP for it. Just made sure that in the Advanced WiFi setup, "Use Static IP" is definitely not selected. Connecting to open WiFi works, just that I can't access anything when I'm connected to any of them - at least the one's I've tried anyway. Last night while in a pub, I connected to a local BT Openzone over WiFi and could move around their web pages perfectly OK so have I just been unlucky with the couple of other hotspots ? I didn't want to hassle the B&B people about their router config as they themselves may not have been techies.

[Guest Roger-S]

My home router is set up as a DHCP server so when I set up WiFi on my Blade, I just went into the WiFi Settings, saw my router, selected it and put in the WPA key. Didn't configure a fixed IP for it. Just made sure that in the Advanced WiFi setup, "Use Static IP" is definitely not selected. Connecting to open WiFi works, just that I can't access anything when I'm connected to any of them - at least the one's I've tried anyway. Last night while in a pub, I connected to a local BT Openzone over WiFi and could move around their web pages perfectly OK so have I just been unlucky with the couple of other hotspots ? I didn't want to hassle the B&B people about their router config as they themselves may not have been techies.

Looks like I WAS in fact unlucky with the first couple of access points I tried because yesterday we were in a nearby Hungry Horse pub for lunch where I connected to their free WiFi OK and could also send and receive POP3 email so that also confirmed that they had no restrictions on sending email whereas I understand some places do. Another location I tried allowed incoming email and web browsing but blocked outbound access to my POP3 SMTP server.