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Unable to connect to wifi in some hotels (self-assigned IP address)

I normally have no problem connecting to wifi, but in some hotels I am unable to connect and get a self-assigned IP address 169...

Having looked around the forums, in my current hotel I have tried several fixes without success (many of these probably apply to a permanent rather than intermittant problem):

- I renewed the DHCP lease

- I tried a manual IP address

- I created a new network location

- I deleted com.apple.airport.preferences

- I turned off the firewall

- I repaired disk permissions

Has anyone else found a fix to problems with some hotel wifi systems?

I can connect with my iPhone, but not my MacBook, so I am now in an internet cafe (and I don't think that you can "tether" an iPhone connected by wifi to a MacBook?).

MacBook Pro 2.66GHz 15, Mac OS X (10.6.7), iPhone 3G

Posted on May 18, 2011 12:58 PM

18 replies

Apr 14, 2012 8:25 PM in response to nbevan

I had a similar problem at a Marriott on my first trip with my Mac. I had to go into the preferences and the privacy tab and unblock cookies. Turns out that the Marriott wifi insists on writing a cookie, if you don't let it then you simply won't get the login page.

Sep 16, 2016 6:26 AM in response to nbevan

Make sure you try to sign onto the internet with Safari. not chrome, not firefox, not anything except Safari. I was trying all these hard things that I didn't understand, and once i tried to log in with Safari the login page from the hotel just popped up and it worked! Good luck!

Nov 1, 2016 8:59 AM in response to nbevan

I really wish people would stop trying to blame the Hotel or something else. This issue is A L W A Y S MAC related. I travel with both my Personal MacBook, and my company PC laptop. The Windows Laptop will always connect and get redirected to the Hotel login page, as will my phone and iPad, the MAC will never get the Hotel login page. I tried enabling cookies, removing DNS for this location and many other suggestions. All with no luck, It just won't go to the login page so I can do the terms accept and carry on with Internet access.

Unable to connect to wifi in some hotels (self-assigned IP address)