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Images marked in red indicate where you should click to complete that particular step. Type the text here. Please continue to follow the steps below. If everything has been done correctly and closed, a pop-up on the bottom right-hand corner of the screen should pop up requesting additional information. If not, you might need to clear the DNS cache on your computer. Tip: Once you're connected, you could add your custom DNS server settings again to speed up your page load time and get around some content restrictions.

For that, Google DNS 8. Still not connected? It's time to try to force your browser to open the login page. An easy trick is to load the router's default page. Try entering If that doesn't work, open your network settings again, and note your computer's IP address as in the screenshot above.

Try entering that IP address in your browser, replacing the last number with 1. Or, if you're trying to connect to a company's public Wi-Fi network—perhaps Gogo internet on a flight or your cell carrier's Wi-Fi network in a mall—try opening that company's website. Most public Wi-Fi networks let you browse their company site without logging in, and they often have a link to their Wi-Fi login page.

For instance, on a Delta flight, I opened delta. The problem could be that your browser cache is still trying to use the DNS info it knows to access sites, instead of loading the Wi-Fi login page. And sometimes you can break it out of that loop by visiting something new. You could clear your browser cache, but that's annoying, and you'd have to log back in to everything.

Instead, open an Incognito window in your browser, which loads with a clean slate. Another good option is to manually visit the site your device tries to open in the background when connecting to new Wi-Fi networks.

You may have noticed your device loading captive. Here are the default pages, each of which works on any platform:. Apple iOS and macOS: captive. Microsoft Windows: www. Google Android and Chrome: google. Tip: The reason you need to load a non-HTTPS site is that if you try to visit a secure site and your network tries to redirect your browser to a login screen, your browser will prevent the redirect to keep your data secure—something that will also keep you from logging in to that Wi-Fi network.

On a Mac, there's another simple way to clear your network settings and likely get the login screen to load: a new network location.

Network locations store your network settings for different locations, perhaps to make your computer use a different DNS at home than at the office or for an easy way to change which networks you connect to by default.

Open your System Preferences and select Network again. Select it, and then try to connect to the network you want. Just remember to switch back to your default network location when you're back at your office or home. Sometimes nothing works. In that case, do the one thing that typically fixes every electronic device: restart.

Didn't work? Try logging out of your account on your computer and then log back in—or just restart your computer. Still stuck? Clear your browser cache. That didn't work? Might be time to ask around and see if anyone else can use the internet.

Perhaps that Wi-Fi connection is just down, or the router needs to be restarted. With any luck, you should be able to get the Wi-Fi network screen to load and can get back to work—hopefully without trying everything in this list! You've gone to all that trouble to get connected to a Wi-Fi network—but don't stop there. If you're on a public Wi-Fi network, you should also use a VPN to encrypt your data and keep it secure from prying eyes. And you may need to use a VPN to access your company's internal data and services.

What can you do when you find yourself in such a fix? Free and paid public Wi-Fi networks have one thing in common, and that is the captive portal.

This is a web page you encounter before internet access can be granted to you. It often requires entering a pre-assigned user ID and password or agreeing to some terms of use.

Imagine the inconvenience when you are away from home. We suggest you try these solutions sequentially as presented. However, you are free to go at it in any order you prefer. Perhaps the captive portal will now come up. You can go ahead and reconnect to the Wi-Fi network. Launch the new default browser and see if the login page will show up. Note: You might not necessarily need to set the new browser as default.

Simply launch it and try visiting a website. The captive portal could appear. Your browser may be set to block pop-ups so as to save data, load pages faster, and also shield you from seeing annoying ads when you visit a website.

However, this could also be stopping the public Wi-Fi login page from appearing. Move on to the other solutions below. This should be sufficient in forcing the Wi-Fi login page to appear. Then press Enter to open the login page.