A non-music related post for a change. On our way to our destination (just to start with a platitude), we got stranded at Toronto Pearson airport for the better part of the day. Fortunately, this airport provides free Internet ("Toronto Airport Wi-Fi"), which helped us nicely to kill some time and bandwidth.
While chugging along happily, a lady interrupted us to ask for help with her Internet connection. She did not get the airport's ISP home screen in her browser, barring her from access to her emails. We tried all the tricks of the book, but nothing helped.
A while later, a friendly man tapped us on the shoulder, apparently with exactly the same issue. Something about "resource not available". This time, we dug deeper, and although all of us had DHCP on, it seemed both the lady and the man's network connection differed from ours in the same way:
- subnet mask of 255.255.240.0 instead of 255.255.248.0
- router address 10.205.128.2 instead of 10.205.128.1
After some fiddling around, we found out that the following workaround fixed the issue (on a Mac, but on a PC it should work as well):
- go to System Preferences => Network => Advanced => TCP/IP
- copy the "IPv4 Address", e.g., 10.205.130.199
- click on "Using DHCP" and change it to "Manually"
- paste the address you copied into "IPv4 Address"
- change the "Subnet Mask" into 255.255.248.0
- change the "Router" into 10.205.128.1
- click "OK" and "Apply Now"
- go to your browser and type something random in the search bar
- go back to System Preferences => Network => Advanced => TCP/IP
- click on "Manually" and change it to "Using DHCP"
- click on "Renew DHCP Lease"
- you should now have a working address with the correct subnet mask and router address
- go to your browser, type something random in the search bar and you should be greeted by the Internet welcome screen
It took us a while to figure out, which is why we wanted to document the procedure for posterity and (why not) posteriority. Guess what: After going through security, we actually had the same issue, so we could verify firsthand that the procedure works.
Anyway, rock on!
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