I have a wireless internet connection at home, and my laptop connects to it without a hitch. It also likes the connection at my parents' house, my sister's house, at various internet cafes I've been to, and even at MacDonalds. I can connect all over the place.
Until I went into my local Starbucks last week. I've used their internet connection there a lot, so it has worked in the past. But it won't work any more.
I've taken a different laptop there, and that one connects fine with my password and username.
My own laptop, though, won't. It finds the Starbucks connection without a hitch; then sometimes it insists that it's connected (and BT Open Zone, whihc runs Starbucks' internet services, has told me it appears to be, as the IP address is correct); but when I try to do anything online Firefox says it can't connect to the internet. Other times it just fails to hook up at all.
I am getting SO frustrated with this! I'm using Windows 7 on that machine, and I feel like drowning it in latte.
Until I went into my local Starbucks last week. I've used their internet connection there a lot, so it has worked in the past. But it won't work any more.
I've taken a different laptop there, and that one connects fine with my password and username.
My own laptop, though, won't. It finds the Starbucks connection without a hitch; then sometimes it insists that it's connected (and BT Open Zone, whihc runs Starbucks' internet services, has told me it appears to be, as the IP address is correct); but when I try to do anything online Firefox says it can't connect to the internet. Other times it just fails to hook up at all.
I am getting SO frustrated with this! I'm using Windows 7 on that machine, and I feel like drowning it in latte.
