[ILUG] Still no joy with Eircom hotspot

[Niall O Broin]

On 2 Apr 2005, at 00:03, ccostelloe at flogas.ie wrote:

>>> This is how Eircom's free wireless in Dublin Airport worked (for 
>>> loose
>>> values of 'worked') so it's definitely worth a try.
>
> For what it is worth, the the only way I could get access at a number 
> of continental airports that I was stuck in recently was also by 
> firing up a browser, which by default went to the provider's 
> instruction page.  Until then, it would not route IMAP.

It seems to be quite a common approach. A rather less common approach 
to avoiding these web pages is outlined in

http://slashdot.org/articles/00/09/10/2230242.shtml



Niall