Cannot connect to public WiFi
Has anyone had (and solved) this problem? We are currently at Gulf State Park in Gulf Shores, AL. On my laptop I can connect to their G band non-secure WiFi network with an "Excellent" signal str...
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The following is what I had to do when I could connect to the wifi but not get to the internet. This is set up steps that could be done manually, but this does them all. I don't know which step fixed the problem, but everything internet wise worked after the reboot step.
Save from @Echo On to del %0, as flush.bat to your desktop. Right click on the flush.bat file to run it as Administrator.
Your computer will reboot itself.
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pushd\windows\system32\drivers\etc
attrib -h -s -r hosts
echo 127.0.0.1 localhost>HOSTS
attrib +r +h +s hosts
popd
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
ipconfig /flushdns
netsh winsock reset all
netsh int ip reset all
shutdown -r -t 1
del %0
Save as flush.bat to your desktop. Right click on the flush.bat file to run it as Administrator.
Your computer will reboot itself
Save from @Echo On to del %0, as flush.bat to your desktop. Right click on the flush.bat file to run it as Administrator.
Your computer will reboot itself.
@Echo on
pushd\windows\system32\drivers\etc
attrib -h -s -r hosts
echo 127.0.0.1 localhost>HOSTS
attrib +r +h +s hosts
popd
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
ipconfig /flushdns
netsh winsock reset all
netsh int ip reset all
shutdown -r -t 1
del %0
Save as flush.bat to your desktop. Right click on the flush.bat file to run it as Administrator.
Your computer will reboot itself
