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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ReadyToGo wrote:
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.
@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
Tried this twice and it didn't fix it either. Thanks for your efforts though.
