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WIFI Router forcing me to sign-in
I just moved and having a difficult time setting up my WIFI. I have it hooked up from my cable modem to my router to my computer. Everything appears to working fine... internet is working on my com...
Well, I got WIFI working but I am still not sure what was happening. My phone was finally able to connect to the activate.spectrum web page through my cellular network. It took a while because it was trying to connect through the WIFI network. On that page, I had to enter my account information (phone number and zip code associated with Spectrum). The Obee modem came up as hardware I needed to activate. I activated it and everything worked! This is really bizarre since the Obee modem was already activated and I was accessing internet through it without any problems. Once I activated it on one wireless device, WIFI worked on all devices (I didn't need to activate on each device).
I'm not sure how but it seems like Spectrum is doing something goofy to force people to buy WIFI though them. I'm just surprised their is not more information on the internet about it.
bzhayes wrote:Yes, that is exactly what is happening. I will get a screen shot this evening when I get home. I would describe it like trying to connect to a WIFI network at a hotel where you first connect to the SSID and then you need to sign in. In this case the sign in page never actually comes up.
That is EXACTLY what I was thinking and why I'd like to see a screen capture.
When you get home, do this, with the PC directly wired to the router, go to the ROUTER LOGIN page (URL of 192.168.1.1, 192.168.0.1 or ROUTERLOGIN.NET, one of those should work) and go to the WIRELESS page and change one of the SSID's (use the 2.4Ghz as all devices should see it) and it's passwor. Then try to connect to that SSID. Although it is highly unlikely I was wondering if you actually were connecting to a different router?
What doesn't seem logical is the wired PC does have the 'challenge' to connect?
Where you lived before, was it also Spectrum? I'm thinking the phone connected to a HOTSPOT which would present that to you. Another reason why you should FORGET the connection and start over.
IrvSp wrote:Where you lived before, was it also Spectrum? I'm thinking the phone connected to a HOTSPOT which would present that to you. Another reason why you should FORGET the connection and start over.
It was Spectrum. I don't think it was connected to a hotspot because the network I (and several visitors) connected to I had renamed