If I am away from home, at my cottage, I try to access the internet and unable to do so. I have to go to a store nearby and they have a system that picks up internet access from across the bay and it is free to any of the cottagers. A wifi system I guess because you only need to sit at a table near the store to pick it up. I can't seem to access the signal on my laptop and am wondering if it has to do with any of my Norton 360 settings.
If I am away from home, at my cottage, I try to access the internet and unable to do so. I have to go to a store nearby and they have a system that picks up internet access from across the bay and it is free to any of the cottagers. A wifi system I guess because you only need to sit at a table near the store to pick it up. I can't seem to access the signal on my laptop and am wondering if it has to do with any of my Norton 360 settings.
I guess I didn't explain clearly. I do have a wifi connection at home. That is how I accesss the internet using my laptop. When I am at the cottage I have not access so I drive to the store and they have WiFi access for anyone to use. The store picks up a signal using a dish and makes it available to others. Its the only place that has a clear siteline to get the signal. I just don't seem able to connect and others do not have that problem. I wondered if it was something to do with my Norton security? I have tried everthing, I just can't seem to get a connection there. I can connect at other places, like at friends homes or in hotels.
I'm not expert in this but at home you have a private network while in the store you have a public network and your security might be set up only to allow access to a private network.
Someone should be able to help you now it's clearer what you meant about "at the cottage"
This may be an obvious question, but does that connection require a password? Did you get one from the store?
Peter,
My thoughts were more the other way round -- that at home on a Private Network (as the Microsoft network setup recommends) you might have a password set up but that a store is likely to have a public network that anyone in range can use?
But I'm not skilled in all this nor in how you set your wifi to use a public network when it finds one.
When I used my laptop in Tampa Airport a while ago I remember if picked up the free wifi they provide with not problems (and I could also see someone using an HP laptop nearby which is a warning for the security unconscious!)
Hugh. I’m no expert in this either. I have connected to different ‘free’ wi fi connections, and depending on who is supplying it it may or may not require a password. One hotel did, another did not. I guess it depends on how they pay for their bandwidth as to whether they need to restrict access.