I’ve been staying in a hotel for work over the last couple of nights (the Premier Inn at Bracknell Central, since you ask), so I decided to take advantage of the hotel WiFi at an extra £3 per 24 hours (seriously, when a room is costing £114 per night this should be included).
My Windows Phone 8, er… phone. Connected without issue, but when it came to connecting my laptop (the Surface Pro 2 running Windows 8.1) no dice. The network connection was made, but only offered a limited connection (i.e. no internet so essentially useless).
The redirect/hijacking to the hotel login page was not appearing. Tethering via my phone I searched countless websites for a solution, and ended up trying some fairly exotic admin commands, but nothing worked.
Nothing.
After continuing to try for an hour or so on the second night I stumbled across the solution. My wireless connection adapter was bridged (from memory I think this was to the Windows Phone Emulator adapter), and for some reason this was consuming the redirects (or at least preventing them from appearing).
Deleting the bridge and re-connecting to the hotel WiFi immediately prompted me to enter the password entry page, and from then on everything worked.
A few weeks ago I attempted to connect to the WiFi on London Underground and was a bit perplexed why it wouldn’t show me the login page there, I suspect this will solve that issue too.
So if you ever hit this problem my advice is to check if you have any adapters bridged, and if so make a note of the settings (just like I didn’t) and try deleting the bridge.
Hopefully this will work for you too, if so please let me know.
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