Cannot connect to free public wifi network that requires a sign in/login page?

My workplace has a free public wifi network. It works great with my laptop and soon to be replaced iPhone (getting Nexus 4). With each of these devices, I am directed to a login page upon connecting to the wireless network. At this page, I have to check a box and click a button to connect to the internet.

The problem with my Nexus 7 tablet is that it does not automatically open this login page in the browser, so it can never connect to the internet even though it does connect to the wifi network (grey wifi signal). In the past, the notifications bar would have a popup that said something like "sign in to wireless network" after connecting to the wifi hotspot. I would click on that, a browser window would open, and I could connect to the internet. However, it no longer does this. Opening a browser window and trying to connect to any site does not cause it to automatically open the login page for the network.

Forgetting the network, turning wifi on and off, restarting the tablet, all fail to resolve this problem.

How can I force the tablet to open this login page so I can actually use the internet with this device?

Thanks for any help you can offer to help me solve this problem.

Yeah, this seems to be a pretty common issue with some networks that require a secondary authentication. My work actually has 2 networks, one for associates that have this login and one for guests that does not. I have the exact same issue when trying to get on the associate network, so I just stick to the guest network for now.

I didn't have this problem before on my last tablet (Acer Iconia A100 running ICS). Then, on my A100 I used a custom ROM to get jellybean and started having this problem. I thought it was an issue with the custom ROM, but now that I have this same issue on this tablet, it looks like it is a problem with JB.

Is it a special login URL? If so can you type that login URL into the browser allowing you to log in?

Did you try a different browser?

In my experience, you can click that notification to get onto the protected network, then close the browser and open a different one to use.

-Suntan

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Originally Posted by Yucca Patrol [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

My workplace has a free public wifi network. It works great with my laptop and soon to be replaced iPhone (getting Nexus 4). With each of these devices, I am directed to a login page upon connecting to the wireless network. At this page, I have to check a box and click a button to connect to the internet.

The problem with my Nexus 7 tablet is that it does not automatically open this login page in the browser, so it can never connect to the internet even though it does connect to the wifi network (grey wifi signal). In the past, the notifications bar would have a popup that said something like "sign in to wireless network" after connecting to the wifi hotspot. I would click on that, a browser window would open, and I could connect to the internet. However, it no longer does this. Opening a browser window and trying to connect to any site does not cause it to automatically open the login page for the network.

Forgetting the network, turning wifi on and off, restarting the tablet, all fail to resolve this problem.

How can I force the tablet to open this login page so I can actually use the internet with this device?

Thanks for any help you can offer to help me solve this problem.

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I've been having exactly the same problem for the last couple of weeks, I've mentioned it on a couple of threads on here but nobody has come up with anything that works, please, please let me know if you find a fix.

I posted this question elsewhere and was told to try using the dolphin browser set to "desk top". I'm not sure what the desk top part meant, but when I connected to the network and then opened Dolphin and tried to go to a random website, the sign in page appeared and it now works.

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Originally Posted by shona001 [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

I've been having exactly the same problem for the last couple of weeks, I've mentioned it on a couple of threads on here but nobody has come up with anything that works, please, please let me know if you find a fix.

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When this happens uncheck the box that says keep me signed in. I think Its a cookie limitation on defaulr and some other browsers

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I've kind of had this with the crome browser while trying to log into the router to work on it via the N7. I get a 404 error page, but just hit the reload icon a few times and the "enter usernam/password" will finally pop up....

haha, I tried that over and over again and it never seemed to work for me. . . .

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Originally Posted by Yucca Patrol [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

I posted this question elsewhere and was told to try using the dolphin browser set to "desk top". I'm not sure what the desk top part meant, but when I connected to the network and then opened Dolphin and tried to go to a random website, the sign in page appeared and it now works.

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Thank you so much for posting this, at last an easy fix that works, I just installed Dolphin and like you tried to go to a random website and the sign in page appeared immediately. That's what always used to happen before the last update with Chrome but I'll stick with Dolphin now.

I have this with the Hilton Hotel wifi. What seems to happen is that it connects and then a few minutes later a notification will appear asking for sign-in credentials. If I don;t want to wait, then I also use the "random web site" method. Works with Dolphin and Firefox.

Alan