Macbook wireless problem in starbucks

Recently yes. The At&t thing used to pop up immediately but lately it doesn't. I think it's a Starbucks or At&t thing. -GDF

Does it usually connect to attwifi? Or a different network, the one for TMobile? I used to use TMobile at Starbucks and I had a similar issue but I was using a Dell. I believe I just went to the Starbucks or TMobile website and it would let me access it that way, even though I wasn't signed in yet. It would allow me to access those pages to sign in. This MAY work... I can't promise anything. That was about two years ago.

I am having the same problem too at Starbucks with ATT Wifi in the USA on an iPhone 3G that just got OS3.0.

It used to work fine. Now it does not. It works fine on my friends iPhone while we stand next to each other. I've tested different Starbucks in different states. It's really maddening.

I'm having the same problem too. It used to work fine, but now it says I'm not connected to the internet.

I've joined the attwifi network, but I can't get the portal page to come up.

Maybe it's because I also go to Barnes & Noble which now has free/open AT&T wifi and my Mac is caching that?

I can boot into Windows 7 on my Boot Camp partition and get online with no problems, but I want to use OS X.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Same problem here. Wireless internet in not a problem, and attwifi is recognizable. But it just does not open up to a login page by default with safari or firefox, instead it just says "you aren't connected". so i stopped going to starbucks. (wifi works at caribou coffee)...

i had the same problem. tried all the different configurations, none worked.
finally i realized that the problem lies in netbarrier, a anti-spyware/virus software that i had installed.
i had the setting set to no restriction which should open up the firewall, but somehow it's still blocking the connection. so once i disable the software completely, everything started working again.

hope this helps.

I had a similar issue when I was out at starbucks.
For some strange reason I could not connect to the attwifi at starbucks, can't even get an IP address... but can successfully connect to my home and work wifi. I had no problems connecting and getting out on my iPhone. I can see the attwifi in the list but can not connect to it.
There was also another issue that I had with my airport card... I could not turn it off in Snow Leopard ... this is apparently related to the problem connecting to the attwifi at starbucks.
The fix I did is as followed:
- open System Preferences->Network
- select airport
- made a copy of the Location: Automatic ... name it was "Automatic Copy"
- applied and tried again.

Connection went through perfectly fine with the Automatic Copy location. Failed to connect with the Automatic location. With the Automatic Copy location I can enable/disable the AirPort card without any issues.

I hope this helps some of the others out there.

-kent