Tips for Reconnecting to Free Wireless Internet While Traveling in the United States

When your travel with a laptop in the United States, many hotels and motels offer free wireless internet service during your overnight stays. Not all hotels and motels provide their free wireless internet services in the same manner. Sometimes you maybe be disappointed to find free internet services are offered over the television only, meaning that work where you post files is entirely impossible. Sometimes the free internet service is only available from a single limited time use machine found in the lobby. Despite all these setbacks to your work, here are a number of tips to aid your free wireless internet reconnection as you move along your travel route.

Before You Start, Call the Hotel Front Desk and Ask for A Password and Username

About half the time, the only information about connecting to the internet from a free service offered by a hotel or motel is available from the front desk. Rather than waste your time searching through the hotel's literature, just ask, chances are even if you are given literature or even a password and username, they will no longer be the correct information. The front desk usually has the only reliable information.

Bring a Cat6 UTP Patch Cord in Your Computing Supplies

Sometimes free internet service is only available by using a phone connecter cord otherwise called a Cat6 UTP Patch Cord for hard line service. Bringing the patch cord with you will often save you a rental fee, sometimes costing as much as a daily service price from an internet service. Sometimes they call this free wireless internet service, but the hotel or motel found that the wireless internet service wasn't reliable so they implemented a hard line system. It's best to be prepared.

Bring an Extension Cord and a Surge Protector

Most hotels and motels don't try to protect your equipment from damage. Many only have one available power switch hidden four feet behind the bed or across the room from the desk. These two pieces of equipment are life savers when you want to get on to the internet while you travel in the United States.

Delete Your Internet History After Your Last Internet Session and Reboot

Sometimes your last free wireless internet session set up service specific scripts, settings or other annoying features that prevent your next hookup. Using Tools> Internet Options > Delete History from your MS Internet Explorer Toolbar will delete any mess the last session made. If you do this on a regular basis, make sure specialized files for Yahoo and favorites are stored in files so that you can restore them.

Don't Choose Automatically Connect when You Connect to a Free Wireless Internet Service

Although the automatically connect setting on a free wireless internet service connection can aid your next session, when you change to a new hotel or motel, this setting may mess up your computer so you can't connect again. You can delete these automatic connections from the Start> Control Panel> Internet Settings Menu but it won't delete any downloaded files or scripts.

If Your Next Session Requires a Password and Username But No Menu Appears, Guess

Sometimes the scripts to override your home web page and bring you to a free wireless internet session login doesn't work and the system tells you that you are connected but won't give you access to the internet. Sometimes the operating system will tell you that you need a login and lets you click the message to take you to the login. Other times you have to guess'"do a search for the hotel and city and it will likely find the correct login page for you.

If the Internet is Slow, Wait Until After 10 pm

Sometimes free internet service and free wireless internet service offered at hotels is really slow. If so, wait until after 10 pm, chances are the staff will have left and no longer competing with you for service time and many of the other guests will have gone to bed.

Free internet service and free wireless internet service often comes packaged in different ways while you are traveling from hotel to motel to coffee shops. It can be an easy thing to do, or not. Becoming familiar with the Start > Control Panel > Internet Settings panel can be very helpful. Also helpful can be the diagnose internet connection capability offered from Microsoft Internet Explorer. It's worth the time you spend because you can get your email messages, contact your friends on social media, and do your work with ease.