Unable to connect wifi with Asus Aspireone Netbook

[Walter Dnes]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:50:08PM -0500, Giles Orr wrote

> After you make the initial connection, you can't actually do anything
> until you open a browser window and try to go somewhere, at which
> point Spyders hijacks the connection and gives you a EULA-equivalent.
> After you agree to that, you should be good to go.  Spyders (who
> run the connection for TPL) isn't particularly fast and you'll get
> dropped pretty quickly (I assume because they have so many incoming
> connection requests?), but it does work.  Good luck.

  Thanks for the explanation.  Next chance I get, I'll try my "Wideopen"
Firefox profile, as opposed to "Default", which borders on paranoid.  I
wonder if I set Default to block redirection.

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