Access AT&T Wi-FI from McDonald's Restaurants

[dportzer]

I have tried to use the free Wi-Fi at several restaurants. In both instances as I am going through the AT&T free Wi-Fi procedural check in, I reach a "check box" (that needs to be checked) stating I have looked at/read the Terms & Condition and accept them. On my Acer Iconia A500 screen the whole procedure view (landscape) of what I am seeing only uses the left side of the screen in miniature size and only uses about 20% of the available screen at that, making everything very difficult to read. I see the check box, but I can not seem to get a "check mark" to appear. So when I do the "continue" I am advised via a pop up box that I have to "check" the box. This happens repeatedly and I can not log in. I have tried this at two McDonald's and the same problem happens at both. I did call the suggested help line and the AT&T tech guy asked me to give him my MAC address and I did, he then logged me in. But that is a work around at best. After getting on line, all was good.

Any suggestion?

Thanks, David Portzer dportzer@gmail.com

 

[strider_mt2k]

What browsers have you tried? It might be that the stock browser doesn't play nice.

-or that the universe is warning you against staying near one of those places long enough to require an internet connection.

 

[dportzer]

I am using the IE browser that comes on the tablet. It works fine in other instances (i.e. on my home Wi-Fi).

David

 

[ahclem]

I get exactly the same thing -- a microscopic login page (zoom didn't seem to function in the stock browser, and I didn't try it again in FF). The box is very hard to hit and the "checkmark" is almost invisible. It works, but you need a magnifying glass, good lighting, and marksmanship, to get that box checkmarked. Once you do, there's no password needed, it connects fine.

Good luck!

 

[rickio]

Have you tried going into your browsers preferences and enlarging font size. I did that an pages came out huge, went back an check medium an its perfect.

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[ahclem]

Have you tried going into your browsers preferences and enlarging font size. I did that an pages came out huge, went back an check medium an its perfect.

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Here are the results of my thorough McDonalds tests:
The stock Browser has a green checkmark in a gray box, almost invisible. Changing the text to Huge causes no change in the box size (but text is huge). Touch/zoom doesn't work.

In Firefox, the checkmark is black, in a white box. You can touch zoom as usual. It's much easier to log in. Use Firefox to login.