Re: wireless access via "hotspot" question

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From: Phillip Windell (_at_.)
Date: 04/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:39:10 -0500

They are running some type of "Internet Cafe" software. It is a special
system. Hotels tend to work the same way. I have never got to stick my
little fingers into one, so I don't know exactly how it does what it does. 

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Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
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<jjd228@NOSPAMoptonline.net> wrote in message
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> so i sit down at starbucks with a laptop and connect wirelessly to the
> t-mobile network that theyre broadcasting. when i open up internet
explorer
> im automatically taken to a t-mobile page to sign up. how are they doing
> this? my homepage is still set to what i have it set to so im thinking
> theres a DNS thing goin on somehow. cant be a proxy because i never
> configured one. could the DNS server that im being handed somehow be
> configured to give this page out for every request?
>
>