iPod Touch WiFi

I've had this for a month now and I don't really understand it. At my school it asks you to login in order to use the internet, so I type in my username and password but then it doesn't work... And today I was in the car and it connected to a network called "Free Public WiFi" but yet nothing that accesses the internet was working (weather, stocks, maps, youtube, safari, etc.) does anyone know why? Thanks

 

It might be that there might be need of further authentication after connection.

 

The number of protocols supported by the iPod Touch/iPhone are rather limited. Chances are your school is using some security protocol which your iPod does not support, and therefore is refusing to connect.

If you can actually connect (you see the connected icon on the top of your screen), but see nothing but errors when you launch Safari, then this is probably the case.

 

Oh do you think that this problem would be fixed after June 9? I'm just curious because I want more out of my iPod besides being able to use WiFi when I'm at home when I could just my laptop...

 

While I was in spain I had the same problem, there were many networks called free public wifi which I couldn't access, I just assumed what budding posted. I just kept trying networks until one worked. The quickest way to see if you are receiving data is to launch your weather app, usually if it's a 'dud' you will get 'update failed' pretty quickly, then you know you can move on to another network.

In the case of my university, it wasn't working for the first week I tried it, it connected but I couldn't do anything. Miraculously it started working last week, but most likely something happened on the other end, not mine.

good luck

 

I suppose you'll have to E-mail Steve Jobs and pray in order to find out.

 

haha I think I'll take that into consideration because otherwise the WiFi feature of the touch is truly a gimmick and has little practical use outside ur home.

 

It's actually quite useful here in the UK, since most UK public wifi access point use web verification (I forgot it's official name), where you connect to the access point, open up a browser, and fill in your credentials before you are allowed access to the web.

 

"Free Public Wi-Fi" is nothing at all in practical terms. Due to a silly behavior in Windows XP, a lot of laptops broadcast a "Free Public Wi-Fi" ad-hoc network. http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2006/09/free_public_wif.html

 

I haven't run into any issues, but then again, I'm not a heavy WiFi user, only around my house and at places like Starbucks.

 

I've only been able to get internet at home and at a diner by my house but no where else

 

The security protocols used at most business and many schools is not supported on the iPod Touch or iPhone, e.g. protected EAP. I was very disappointed when I found I couldn't connect here at work. Still, the iPod Touch is very nice and has worked well. Since I haven't heard anything about Apple working on an update for their WiFi protocols I doubt it will be fixed soon.

 

Actually, with the release of the SDK for the iPhone/iPod Touch I'm betting that someone would add in support for more protocols for the WiFi security.

Crossing my fingers on this!

 

That's surprising to hear. I've had no problem whatsoever at my university

 

I wish I went to ur university...I can only get WiFi in two places, I hope this problem is addressed somehow at WWDC