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[Closed] public wifi connection help

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i was away last week and the place i was staying had wifi. now i was stood next to the wifi tower thingie, it was taller than me but my "computer said no"

i'm away again this weekend and would like to connect. the leaflet i was supplied with sais if i'm running vista, which i am, then i might have problems, the help line was fncking useless!

anyone got any ideas?

and i'll give it a go a maccy d's before i go.

cheers.


 
Posted : 29/06/2010 8:07 pm
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Vista doesn't like some routers and non-MS DHCP servers. I've seen this a few times (assuming it's the same problem).

Hang on......

Read this.
[url] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233 [/url]

you can download a fix from that page.


 
Posted : 29/06/2010 9:37 pm
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Get Windows 7...


 
Posted : 29/06/2010 9:38 pm