JohnAPremium
join:2003-09-16
Pittsburgh, PA | reply to Onedollar
Re: Free WIFI
Look at your bill on the .net side. Keep drilling down till you'll finally see your current internet service and pricing. Won't fix the qualifying for WIFI issue though. |
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| Well for kicks, i tried to login to fiostvcentral using the .net radio button option. Its stating "Please login with your Primary account credentials." Using the .com radio button works fine. Again confirmed there is something funky with my .net account and will require prolly a wipe of my .net account and starting over...
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| Ahh ok, i figured it out. This is all part of the main account problem. I thought I was created a new one, but apparently not as my old one still exists.
So if anyone has this problem, try to figure out what your real main primary account is. |
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VERY limited subset of Boingo hotspots This service apparently does not provide access to all Boingo hotspots. For example, it excludes ALL the McDonald's locations in the D.C. area.
Even more annoying is that the Verizon app detects Boingo websites, logs you in, then immediately boots you out with a message. So even in locations listed by the Verizon app and website, like Reagan Washington National airport (DCA), you don't know whether you have service till you've been fully logged in for a minute or so!!
Better to pay Boingo $9.95 per month than to pay to upgrade to 25/15, IMHO. |
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| I'm headed on an unexpected road trip back home to Chicago and my parents do not have internet, so I did some playing around.
Verizon hotspots in my area are essentially only Starbuck corporate sites. And it worked fine, automatically notifying me and allowing me to log in there.
Barnes and Noble was free. And McDonalds was recognized but wouldn't connect with a message initially saying you were at a Verizon hotspot and then saying it wasn't.
I signed up for Boingo (which also requires their software if you want the benefit of hotspot detection) and it worked as advertised. Interestingly, now at McDonalds both Verizon and Boingo popped up and clashed with each other; I had to turn off Verizon and then Boingo just worked.
And of course Boingo has a lot of hotspots on the route to Chicago and nearby to my parents house, so I've turned the verizon software off for the duration.
Don't really need the automatic hotspot detection because my Palm Pre can detect wifi so if I can connect to Boingo without their software, that would save on netbook resources.
Yes the Verizon stuff works but it's pitifully limited. |
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satoru
join:2007-04-19
Wellesley Hills, MA | reply to Springbok
Re: Free WIFI Has anyone tried using a Linux OS to connect? Technically with boingo you don't need their wifi client, it just makes things more convenient. |
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 dataicePremium
join:2002-10-27
Crisfield, MD
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4 edits | Re: Free WIFI
said by:satoru
Has anyone tried using a Linux OS to connect? Technically with boingo you don't need their wifi client, it just makes things more convenient.
Yes, and it dosen't work. I'm running Maemo 4.1/OS2008 on my Nokia N810 tablet, and it will not support it. It will only run on either Windows XP/Vista 32-bit only. My tablet supports the Boingo software, and you are correct it will connect to Boingo hotspots without the software, but it will NOT connect to Verizon's. Verizon is using some type of special authentication process in order for you to connect. The Verizon applet is required in order to connect. I've tried at least a half dozen different ways to work around it, and came up empty everytime. I've also noticed that Verizon won't connect to all Boingo hotspots while using a laptop. MickyD's for example is just one of many. I've tried connecting to several different MickyD's hotspots, where Boingo allowed the connection but on Verizon nothing, it would connect but nothing would load. So, it appears that the Verizon hotspots are actually a very small subset of AT&T/Boingo access points. Fairly useless here in southeastern Maryland. |
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| reply to Gary A
You have a FIOS plan slower than 3 Mbps?
New and existing Verizon residential
Internet customers are eligible.
Included with Verizon High Speed
Internet plans up to 3 Mbps download
or faster (Power and Turbo plans) and
FiOS Internet Faster and Fastest plans.
said by Gary A:Guess that leaves me out since I am still on a legacy internet tier and not one of the newer FiOS Internet "Faster" or "Fastest" plans as the fine print on their website states. They are bound and determined to get that additonal $25 a month out of my wallet.  --
KieranMullen »360oregon.com
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I do not have it either. Apparently those on their so called business plan with statics do not get it.
Do you have their so called business service?
said by Onedollar:Hrmm, I have 20/5 package, I login and dont see the option to register for free wi-fi. Anyone else have this issue? --
KieranMullen »360oregon.com
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satoru
join:2007-04-19
Wellesley Hills, MA | reply to dataice
I've installed the program on a laptop and have attempted to de-construct how the program works. It downloads lots of xml files that appears to have all the AP's listed as well as other Boingo branded type of things.
It must use the Windows wireless zero configuration service to do all the wireless settings. There appear to be a few files that might be 'keys' of some kind. I'm not sure if getting a wireless sniffer would give us better insight, or if most of the traffic is already encrypted. Maybe a debugger locally might be a better option? |
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