There seems to be a general agreement that the iPod Touch does not work with BT Openzone. This is a shame because wifi is the only way of connecting the Touch wirelessly to the outside world and Openzone is about a widespread as hotspot zones come.
It stems from the way you have to use a web login page to authenticate yourself. The iPod will successfully find the Openzone hotspot and connect to it with a strong signal. The url will successfully redirect to the Openzone login page and you can successfully enter your Openzone user name and password. The Openzone logged in page successfully appears.
This is where it all goes wrong. Every new page you try to open redirects to an Openzone page telling you how to buy more minutes. Every page you try to open just redirects.
If you return to the login page and refresh it then it successfully reports how long you've been logged in to Openzone using up your minutes...
Apparently, it's not like this logging in to other wifi hotspot networks. Indeed The Cloud has a tariff that specifically targets iPod Touch users.
Anyone with solutions, thoughts, anger?
It stems from the way you have to use a web login page to authenticate yourself. The iPod will successfully find the Openzone hotspot and connect to it with a strong signal. The url will successfully redirect to the Openzone login page and you can successfully enter your Openzone user name and password. The Openzone logged in page successfully appears.
This is where it all goes wrong. Every new page you try to open redirects to an Openzone page telling you how to buy more minutes. Every page you try to open just redirects.
If you return to the login page and refresh it then it successfully reports how long you've been logged in to Openzone using up your minutes...
Apparently, it's not like this logging in to other wifi hotspot networks. Indeed The Cloud has a tariff that specifically targets iPod Touch users.
Anyone with solutions, thoughts, anger?