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Won’t let me get here. Blah blah blah against some policy blah blah blah...

I feel so much safer now.
And yes, I went right back to LTE so I could post this. Big Grin
 
Posts: 6288 | Location: East Texas | Registered: February 20, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Some Bob Evans do the same thing, some don't, so I don't think it's a deliberate corporate policy. Rather it seems to be whoever set up the internet at individual locations, set up some sort of filter that blocks certain content.
 
Posts: 10803 | Location: SWFL | Registered: October 10, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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The local HEB store's wifi blocks SIGforum too.
Disappointing, but I don't care enough to make a stink about it.




 
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Always been thankful to United Airways for NOT blocking SIGforum. On their planes shitty wifi, this page is one of the few things that comes up and navigates smoothly!! Smile


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Posts: 4635 | Location: New Jersey | Registered: June 21, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Having previously been in the industry... most of these places just use the default firewall settings that the service they use has set up. They're not all setting up and running their own IT departments.




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Posts: 17944 | Location: Virginia | Registered: June 02, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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If I owned a restaurant the log in would be.

hangupandsocialize
 
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Originally posted by 1s1k:
If I owned a restaurant the log in would be.

hangupandsocialize



Good Point Smile

For those not "getting it" - use a VPN.
 
Posts: 22845 | Location: Houston, TX | Registered: June 11, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I won't use wifi out in public. Even when I stay at a hotel I use cellular on both my phone and iPad.

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Posts: 3836 | Location: Jacksonville, FL | Registered: September 10, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Having previously been in the industry... most of these places just use the default firewall settings that the service they use has set up. They're not all setting up and running their own IT departments.
Yup. They probably never even paid attention to what was blocked and what was "approved."

When I was incarcerated in a physical therapy rehab place after my hip fracture, I pointed out to them that I could not connect to SIGforum. They had absolutely no idea how to change any settings.



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Posts: 30536 | Location: Central Florida, Orlando area | Registered: January 03, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Originally posted by SpinZone:
I won't use wifi out in public. Even when I stay a a hotel I use cellular on both my phone and iPad.


This is the way I am since 2013 when I was in the hospital donating almost half my colon to science. Was using the patient WiFi where had to use admitting info to get on, not the “public” WiFi they also had and my email was hacked.

Thankfully that was all that was messed with, but no more public WiFi for me. My Verizon unlimited on phone and iPad both have hotspot ability, so phone, iPad, MacBook I am good.






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Posts: 10911 | Location: Western WA state for just a few more years... | Registered: February 17, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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VPN, Gets right around it



 
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Having previously been in the industry... most of these places just use the default firewall settings that the service they use has set up. They're not all setting up and running their own IT departments.
^^this^^

I've been in bars that have alcohol websites blocked. Kinda sucks when they have dozens of beers on tap and cannot checkout a review site like beer advocate.



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Cell service for me. Years ago, when the local hospitals put in wi-fi terminals for the patients and federal, state, and local inmates were among the patients, I made the change. I socialize with people I like. That number is small enough that I am often on the internet in pubic.
 
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Originally posted by Patrick-SP2022:
The local HEB store's wifi blocks SIGforum too.
Disappointing, but I don't care enough to make a stink about it.

In all the years I’ve shopped at HEB, I’ve never been in there long enough to try and surf Sigforum. I buy my stuff and leave.
 
Posts: 4075 | Location: Friendswood Texas | Registered: August 24, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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It has never occurred to me to use the wi-fi in a restaurant. I'm too busy chowing down or, if with somebody, talking to them.
 
Posts: 27814 | Location: Johnson City/Elizabethton, TN | Registered: April 28, 2012Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Originally posted by Patrick-SP2022:
The local HEB store's wifi blocks SIGforum too.
Disappointing, but I don't care enough to make a stink about it.

In all the years I’ve shopped at HEB, I’ve never been in there long enough to try and surf Sigforum. I buy my stuff and leave.


My wife ran into the store to pick up a couple of items and I was sitting in the parking lot.
If I am in the store, my focus is on getting my items and getting out.




 
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It has never occurred to me to use the wi-fi in a restaurant. I'm too busy chowing down or, if with somebody, talking to them.
If I am alone, I give my order to the waiter, then while waiting for the food I might check email and / or SIGforum.



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Posts: 30536 | Location: Central Florida, Orlando area | Registered: January 03, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I always have a couple books loaded in the Kindle app for situations like these.
 
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VPN, Gets right around it


Please explain this and how to use it. Thanks
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Posts: 11810 | Registered: October 26, 2009Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Having previously been in the industry... most of these places just use the default firewall settings that the service they use has set up. They're not all setting up and running their own IT departments.
This is precisely correct. Websites are divided into broad categories by the network's firewall software- Sports, Music, Weapons, etc. Specific sites may be blocked, but usually, sites such as SIGforum are not accessible on these public wifi networks because a broad category- such as 'Weapons'- is blocked.

And yes, the way around this is to use a VPN client. However, some of these public wifi networks block VPN tunneling. I know that Panera Bread does this, which means you can't reach SIGforum from their network at all.


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