Re: Newbie to wifi hotspots, could use some advice



Sure appreciate any suggestions, or recommendations as to how to
proceed, or what to look for.

Not any other free hotspots close by to experiment with. <shrug>

I would think that the library is a public based wireless network, which should mean it has no encryption.

So, if you have something like WEP or WAP on the card enabled, then the computer cannot get an IP from the DHCP server on the network so that the machine can connect to the Internet, because the wireless network is not using encryption that requires a key be given by the card.

You should disable WEP or WAP on the card, make sure the firewall on the machine is running and the machine is NOT set to share resources on the public wireless network.

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