Problem with Free WiFi Internet Access at the airport?

Question

I just bought a Dell Inspiration laptop to use the internet while I travel. The internet was working great at my hotel room and then I tried to get internet access at the airport that offers a free WiFi wireless speed access. I got connected but unfortunately couldn't open any page on the internet. It just wasn't working:( Why and what had happened?

I will appreciate any help.

Answer 1

Many people set up their laptops to act as wifi connection points and give them misleading names like "Free Airport Wifi", etc. You connected to one of these people. If you tried to sign in to anything online, they likely have your User ID and password.

See link below.

"DeadlyBattleRobot writes in with a story from Computerworld about a rather simple scam that has been observed in the wild in several US airports. Bad guys set up a computer-to-computer (ad hoc) network and name it "Free Wi-Fi." You join it and, if you have file sharing enabled, your computer becomes a zombie. The perp has set up Internet sharing so you actually get the connectivity you expected, and you are none the wiser. Of course no one reading this would fall for such an elementary con. The article gives detailed instructions on how to make sure your computer doesn't connect automatically to any offered network, and how to tell if an access point is really an ad hoc network (it's harder on Vista)."