Why doesn't my Vonage WiFi Phone work in airports?

I recently bought the Vonage "UT Starcom F1000" WiFi Phone and it works
great at home with my wireless network! But so far I have never been able
to connect through the WiFi networks at the airports! Even though those
networks are open for access, the initial connection has to be initiated
through a browser access from a laptop.

I don't know if I this is the newsgroup where I should address my issue. I
will appreciate any suggestions or advice that can help me use my WiFi Phone
in open access points like airports.

Thanks and regards,
SG

In article <5a_qg.3099$(E-Mail Removed) .net>, "SG" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>I recently bought the Vonage "UT Starcom F1000" WiFi Phone and it works
>great at home with my wireless network! But so far I have never been able
>to connect through the WiFi networks at the airports! Even though those
>networks are open for access, the initial connection has to be initiated
>through a browser access from a laptop.
>
>I don't know if I this is the newsgroup where I should address my issue. I
>will appreciate any suggestions or advice that can help me use my WiFi Phone
>in open access points like airports.
>
>Thanks and regards,
>SG
>
>
>

What dvice has Vonage tech support offered so far?

fundamentalism, fundamentally wrong.

> Even though those
> networks are open for access, the initial connection has to be initiated
> through a browser access from a laptop.

Then they're not 'open'. The session they pretend to open is tied to the
MAC hardware address of the laptop. The phone, being an independent device,
has it's own MAC address. The routers controlling the WiFi claiming to be
'open' want the devices to login using a web browser. The phone doesn't
have one, and well there you are, out of luck.

> I don't know if I this is the newsgroup where I should address my issue.
I
> will appreciate any suggestions or advice that can help me use my WiFi
Phone
> in open access points like airports.

Bitch about it to the idiots running the airport hotspot. I doubt they'll
listen.

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 00:20:56 -0400, "Bill Kearney"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
<Sv-dnRw-(E-Mail Removed)>:

>> Even though those
>> networks are open for access, the initial connection has to be initiated
>> through a browser access from a laptop.
>
>Then they're not 'open'. The session they pretend to open is tied to the
>MAC hardware address of the laptop. The phone, being an independent device,
>has it's own MAC address. The routers controlling the WiFi claiming to be
>'open' want the devices to login using a web browser. The phone doesn't
>have one, and well there you are, out of luck.

That doesn't make it not 'open' - that just makes it controlled. It's
quite reasonable to require T&C agreement on an 'open' hotspot.

>> I don't know if I this is the newsgroup where I should address my issue.
>I
>> will appreciate any suggestions or advice that can help me use my WiFi
>Phone
>> in open access points like airports.
>
>Bitch about it to the idiots running the airport hotspot. I doubt they'll
>listen.

And why should they? The problem is the phone, not the hotspot.

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