John Navas <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 22:14:44 +0000 (UTC), spope33@speedymail.org (Steve

>>The weirdest hotel connection I've ever had was at the MEC hotel
>>in Paestum, Italy. In order to get the log on screen that
>>enables the connection I had to figure out (using commands like
>>netstat) what address their server was at (ended up being
>>something like 10.0.5.1) and set my browser's proxy to this
>>address. Hotel staff had no clue how to work this.

>Did you try "automatically detect proxy settings"? That's usually
>worked for me.

You know, I wasn't aware of that feature. So maybe it would
have worked. Normally I don't need proxies; this was the
first hotel or WLAN anywhere I've encountered that required one.

Steve