Today, I was waiting for my car to be serviced at the dealership where we bought the car. The dealership is a pretty slick place that offers free beverages, snacks, and...free wifi.

So, I pulled out my N800 and connected to the Wifi -- without a hitch and with full bars.

But, I couldn't actually connect to anything!

So, I opened the Connection Manager, as well as the WifiInfo app and AutoScan... Everything looked great: I had a great connection, I was sending and receiving packets, etc.

Still, when I tried to connect to a webpage or my email... Nothing.

Could anyone explain why this may have happened?

Thanks,
Tim

Any update on this??

When my local isp goes down these days I can use ftp, play chess, use xchat, just no web site activities. (roadrunner is my isp) Isn't this what would happen if the dns was down?

hi timsamoff

what msg did you get when you say nothing happens?

cheers

check to see if you were assigned a DHCP address by the router. it could have timed out.

or the router may have some rudimentary securit enabled like mac filtering.

Sorry... I've been traveling -- I'm at Flashbelt this week. Anyway... The browser just said that the web page couldn't load (for any page). I couldn't access IMAP/SMTP either. But, I had a stable connection (according to WifiInfo).

-T.

At my work location there are several open sites, the open site that gives me full scale radio reception states' connected to local IP address' but I can't connect to anything?

I get the same problem, but most of the time I can predict the problem. such as when I'm at my friend's apartment (they have a free wireless connection for the complex) and I connect it says: Connected to XXX with link-local IP. (That just means problems in my head. How do I fix that?)

Link-local IP and not being able to connect to anything basically means that either the signal is too weak or you aren't meant to be using it anyways. (There's other security other than a WEP key - MAC filtering, for example.)

My issue is not the link-local IP connection problem -- that is discussed in many other threads on this forum (please do some searches). My issue is occurring with a legitimate, open wifi signal, where I get a full, stable connecton (with a smoothe, bi-directional packet exchange) yet, I cannot access anything on the internet.

-T.