Need Real Time help connecting to WiFi network. Please help!!!

Hey guys, I recently moved to a new area with my Vostro 1500. WiFi works EVERYWHERE including home, school, and various hotels. However, I can not get it to work at the lodge I will be staying at for this whole summer while doing my internship. I spent about an hour on the phone with Dell and determined that it isn't my computer but the lodges network that isn't allowing me to connect.

When I'm in the lodge my computer shows 4 different very strong unsecure networks that are available. My computer also shows that I can connect to them. However, once I try to actually get online it just says "page cannot be displayed". You know the most common page for not being connected to the internet.

I have tried everything guys. What can I do?? Its obviously a problem with their type of network and my specific computer because none of the other computers have a problem in the building. One thing I should mention. I did use the Vista tweek guide on this website. Don't know if that matters but I can connect to any other network, just not this one.

I should also mention that sometimes it won't connect to any of the networks at the lodge even though the signal is very good. I could REALLY use some help on this one guys. If I can't solve the problem then I will have to drive about 4 miles everyday just to steal a signal from a hotel to check mail, submit school work and so on as I am doing right now! I should be online for the next hour or so. Then I will have to head back to the lodge for the night and won't be able to answer any questions if you have any. PLEASE HELP!!

 

I'd say right off the bat that your best bet is obtaining specifics about the network at your lodge. If you're paying to stay there and they provide internet for you, you shouldn't be glanced at awkwardly when you ask. With some specifics, you or some of the more wireless-ly experienced people on this board might be able to help (of course, once you're there, you can't get on again tonight, so I'd just stay put as long as you can for more responses.)

 

it sounds like they have MAC filtering. Sounds like at my library. It is the same thing as you describe. Youll have to ask some one at the lodge.

 

Thanks guys. Heres the deal, from my understanding the same ISP runs the whole state system. I mean shouldn't thousands of people be using this same series of networks statewide and why doesn't anybody else have problems? It is a lodge at a state park and I'm doing my internship there so no I'm not paying to stay. They are giving me a place for free but I really need internet for school and not to die from boredom!!!

 

No one at the lodge really knows anything because their computers work. Its pretty strange.

 

It'd be weird if it was MAC filtering - wouldn't they need to allow specific MACs for every new machine that wanted access? That would be a major pain in the rear.

Okay, so you're not paying, but the best thing I can think of is to ask them to look at another computer that's connected using wireless, or find someone else at the lodge and ask them about it. Check if there are any Ethernet cables around and stick one in and see if your internet works there - if that's the case, then it's definitely a wireless problem (obviously.)

 

Thanks ds. Sorry but I gotta run for the night. If anybody else has any info please feel free to post. Ill check here again tomorrow evening if the Ramada folks don't kick me out for staling their signal! Thanks, Wes