I have gone to a local cafe quite regularly over the past few months, at least once a week, and to be honest, I try to go twice a week.
Since my accident, I am mostly reliant on other people to get me around, as I have had to hand in my licence until either I have my car fitted with hand controls or my legs start workign again.
So, I spend prettymuch all of my life in the house and I have the chance of going to sit in the cafe while my wife is doing the weekly shopping and this has been briliant for me. I sit there with a Laptop and either do nothing in particular or I chat with people, I really dont care what I do, because Im not sat at home doing it.
I think this is why half my posts to forums are 600 pages just to say hi but there you go.
Now, a couple of weeks ago, my Laptop failed to connect to their router, or rather it did, but I got limited connection and no internet. I was not too put off by it, it was fairly busy and so I assumed that was the cause.
The next time I went, it was the same but hardly anyone around and so I had a piddle with the networking, doing the more obvious fist of course, but then trying silly things just to see whats going on until I thought bugger it, I could reinstall anyway as I fancied giving Windows 7 another try on it ( This Laptop hates Windows 7 for some reason? ) and so I did some seriously nasty stuff to kind of experiment and see if I could repair it, and sure enough, no matter what I did, I got home and I was fully able to connect to my network just fine.
The next time I went, I had forgotten to install and so I was in teh same boat. However, I am a slick bugger, what I did, was use my phone to connect by enabling Wireless dongle mode on it. This then of course gives my Laptop full speed access to their router but using a different MAC Address.
This is why I think that they have disabled just the one laptop by the MAC addy because all my other devices connect to their network just fine, its only that one Laptop... The last time I went, I took one of my other Laptops as well, plus this one with Win7 on it and the other connected perfectly, this with Win 7 and then when I instaleld Win 8, just would not connect.
They have stopped me havent they?
Since my accident, I am mostly reliant on other people to get me around, as I have had to hand in my licence until either I have my car fitted with hand controls or my legs start workign again.
So, I spend prettymuch all of my life in the house and I have the chance of going to sit in the cafe while my wife is doing the weekly shopping and this has been briliant for me. I sit there with a Laptop and either do nothing in particular or I chat with people, I really dont care what I do, because Im not sat at home doing it.
I think this is why half my posts to forums are 600 pages just to say hi but there you go.
Now, a couple of weeks ago, my Laptop failed to connect to their router, or rather it did, but I got limited connection and no internet. I was not too put off by it, it was fairly busy and so I assumed that was the cause.
The next time I went, it was the same but hardly anyone around and so I had a piddle with the networking, doing the more obvious fist of course, but then trying silly things just to see whats going on until I thought bugger it, I could reinstall anyway as I fancied giving Windows 7 another try on it ( This Laptop hates Windows 7 for some reason? ) and so I did some seriously nasty stuff to kind of experiment and see if I could repair it, and sure enough, no matter what I did, I got home and I was fully able to connect to my network just fine.
The next time I went, I had forgotten to install and so I was in teh same boat. However, I am a slick bugger, what I did, was use my phone to connect by enabling Wireless dongle mode on it. This then of course gives my Laptop full speed access to their router but using a different MAC Address.
This is why I think that they have disabled just the one laptop by the MAC addy because all my other devices connect to their network just fine, its only that one Laptop... The last time I went, I took one of my other Laptops as well, plus this one with Win7 on it and the other connected perfectly, this with Win 7 and then when I instaleld Win 8, just would not connect.
They have stopped me havent they?
