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ironjohn
Joined: 25 Nov 2009
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 Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 6:42 pm Post subject: Free wifi not available for Apple? |
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Okay, so I'm curious about this. I went to a Homeplus the other day. After shopping I was planning to do some work on my laptop in one of the cafes.
I checked to see if there was wifi by pulling out my Android phone. Homeplus free wifi, strong signal. But when I checked on my iBook, it couldn't detect the same hotspot.
I figured maybe my mac was too old, or not configured correctly. But then I realized that Homeplus is run by Samsung-Tesco, and maybe they somehow blocked the wifi from being detected by Apple products. Curious if this possible? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 4:58 am Post subject: Re: Free wifi not available for Apple? |
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| ironjohn wrote: |
Okay, so I'm curious about this. I went to a Homeplus the other day. After shopping I was planning to do some work on my laptop in one of the cafes.
I checked to see if there was wifi by pulling out my Android phone. Homeplus free wifi, strong signal. But when I checked on my iBook, it couldn't detect the same hotspot.
I figured maybe my mac was too old, or not configured correctly. But then I realized that Homeplus is run by Samsung-Tesco, and maybe they somehow blocked the wifi from being detected by Apple products. Curious if this possible? |
Nope. IEEE 802.11 can't tell what the machine is and doesn't care.
Either you have a dead wifi on your iBook or it was not configured properly (wifi turned off/disabled).
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ironjohn
Joined: 25 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 3:50 am Post subject: |
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I dunno, the wifi works on the ibook, and I could detect all the other hotspots except the Homeplus one.
Just out of curiosity I did some research and one thread said it is possible to block certain manufacturers by using Media Access Control (MAC) address filtering, because "the first 6 bytes of a MAC address designates who manufactured said device."
http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-944251.html
If (Tesco-Samsung) Homeplus is actually doing this, it wouldn't surprise me at all. |
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tatertot
Joined: 21 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 1:23 am Post subject: |
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| ironjohn wrote: |
I dunno, the wifi works on the ibook, and I could detect all the other hotspots except the Homeplus one.
Just out of curiosity I did some research and one thread said it is possible to block certain manufacturers by using Media Access Control (MAC) address filtering, because "the first 6 bytes of a MAC address designates who manufactured said device."
http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-944251.html
If (Tesco-Samsung) Homeplus is actually doing this, it wouldn't surprise me at all. |
I don't think you understood that correctly. The "device" you referred to is the NIC, not the whole computer. Apple doesn't manufacture any "devices" in that sense. Those manufacturers would be Broadcom or Intel or ... I can't remember the other famous NIC company right now. It doesn't refer to Apple, though. |
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ironjohn
Joined: 25 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 4:07 am Post subject: |
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| Ah, I see. Yeah, I'm probably looking for a conspiracy that's not there. Maybe the wifi signal was just too weak or something. Thanks for the responses. |
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