How to fix Free Public WiFi's when your device connects but can't surf.

How to fix Free Public WiFi's when your device connects but can't surf.

Type 1.1.1.1 into a browser and this will bring you to the agreement page which will allow you to accept their terms of agreement for WiFi usage.

Sometimes it doesn't always notify you to connect or redirect you're page to the login site and 95% of the time it's 1.1.1.1

1.1.1.1 isn't necessarily what you need to type in. I generally put in a private IP such as 10.0.1.1 and always get directed to the login website. The reason that I would assume this is more immediate versus just waiting is that this avoids a DNS lookup, which would ultimately fail because you haven't authenticated to the network yet. Typing in an IP directly, no matter what it is, will likely get you to the login page.



I understand that logic, and I've thought the same before. However, what this step skips (by going directly to an IP rather than performing a DNS lookup) is any internal knowledge of an IP that your device has. As an example, if your device knows that Google is at 74.125.266.1 due to previous visits, then it would try to go there and fail. So next it would try either a DNS that it has in its system, or one that is configured remotely. Again, it would fail. So it would try again, if others are configured.. And fail.

By going directly to an IP, you're mitigating all of these failures and getting to a redirect page faster.

Again, these are my assumptions as I haven't bothered to look at the actual traffic. I just know that the method seems to work well.

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