Originally Posted by
trashhauler
When I was in China in March, I had a problem connecting to the internet using the ethernet port on my Mac Book. It seem to be just an Apple thing because the tech came to my room with an IBM laptop and it worked fine. Also when I went to the lobby, the wireless worked fine.
Has anybody with a MAC had a similar problem in China recently? If so, is there a fix? Thanks in advance.
Did you get an ip address?
Could you ping the gateway(router that lets you out)?
Did you get dns servers?
Could you ping them?
Did the tech check his working settings so you could set them manually with Network Preferences?
Quite frequently the wired and wireless systems in hotels and other buildings are separate networks hence your ability to get on with the wireless.
I've run into networks that had some obscure setting that was granted automagically in Windows(usually a nonstandard mask) but not in Linux or OSX. In the case of the Linux problems it was with the same hardware, dual boot laptop, just different drivers and settings. Networking is platform agnostic. Unless the router verifies the system type and excludes from that but even that can be spoofed.
Of course if you like the new Mac hardware you can run Windows on it if you feel the need.