peppergomez
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If anyone has experience either using or setting up a Linksys Guest Wi-Fi account, I'd greatly appreciate some help.
My neighbor very kindly gave me the password for his wireless guest account so that I can use when I need to (I'm unemployed and am thinking of cancelling my TWC internet to save money).
He has a Linksys EA-6500 router.
The problem I am encountering on both my laptop, desktop (both using Windows 7 64 bit) and on my iPad is that the Linksys Smart Wi-Fi screen rarely appears when I begin a new session. In theory it should appear and prompt me to log in when I have opened a new browser, but it very rarely does so. I'd say it appears maybe 1/100th of the time. And there doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason behind when it does so. I close all browsers and begin a new one when I start a new session, but it doesn't appear, and I have no Internet access, even though I am connected to my neighbor's guest account.
The Linksys description of the guest account advises guests to open an Internet browser and then type in the password from there. This rarely works for me however. I bookmarked what I thought was the log in screen, but it turned out to be a link to the site I was trying to access, with the Linksys log in prompt info preceding. Opening it at the start of a new session didn't work either.
Am I correct in expecting the Linksys Smart Wi-Fi to prompt me for a password whenever I am beginning a new session?
There's got to be a way of doing this so that I can go directly to the Linksys Smart Wi-Fi password prompt login screen before I start trying to access web pages. Anyone?
Thanks.
My neighbor very kindly gave me the password for his wireless guest account so that I can use when I need to (I'm unemployed and am thinking of cancelling my TWC internet to save money).
He has a Linksys EA-6500 router.
The problem I am encountering on both my laptop, desktop (both using Windows 7 64 bit) and on my iPad is that the Linksys Smart Wi-Fi screen rarely appears when I begin a new session. In theory it should appear and prompt me to log in when I have opened a new browser, but it very rarely does so. I'd say it appears maybe 1/100th of the time. And there doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason behind when it does so. I close all browsers and begin a new one when I start a new session, but it doesn't appear, and I have no Internet access, even though I am connected to my neighbor's guest account.
The Linksys description of the guest account advises guests to open an Internet browser and then type in the password from there. This rarely works for me however. I bookmarked what I thought was the log in screen, but it turned out to be a link to the site I was trying to access, with the Linksys log in prompt info preceding. Opening it at the start of a new session didn't work either.
Am I correct in expecting the Linksys Smart Wi-Fi to prompt me for a password whenever I am beginning a new session?
There's got to be a way of doing this so that I can go directly to the Linksys Smart Wi-Fi password prompt login screen before I start trying to access web pages. Anyone?
Thanks.