Help Connecting to corporate wifi

Wait what exactly happens? Does it not show the login page or does it give an error?

Would be interesting to find out if all the other apps on android uses port 80,I'd imagine your uni wireless has a white list of sorts on their firewalls? Or that they might block certain ports?

I agree, sounds like a firewall or access-list issue.

You'll have to contact your university's IT department. They can watch when your apps are trying to connect, which port they're using when they're getting blocked.

I'd bet money they have unblocked the iPad ports (because of volume of users) but are unaware of your Android issues.

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Be very careful what you surf on that wifi! Whether it's laptop or tablet, anyone nearby can "listen" and "record" EVERYTHING you send on an unencrypted connection.

i have no issues with connecting any apps i have to my works wifi which allows contractors to access their emails and download stuff if required. but both corporate and the external wifi still goes through the same gateway and have the same set of white/blacks lists applied to it. so whats bloacked on corporate internet - facebook as an example - is blocked on the wifi too.

the only exception is that mp3 downloader which makes calls to ftp sites? sftp is allowed but not ftp on the firewall pilicy i think.

I suspect the android market makes a call, think its port 5228 over tcp which is going to be pretty unique i say from the standard http/80 call most browsers go through

and yes im with autoBahn, its the teckkie boys managing the firewall policy that are all with ipad2's in the 1st place

good luck!

I was using a hospital wifi over the weekend that worked this same way. After I logged in via the browser I made sure to leave the browser open on that page, pressed 'home' and then ran whatever other app I wanted.
One time I couldn't get to the login screen on the default browser (it just refused to go there), so I used Dolphin For Pad instead, which worked fine using the same process as above.

chemm said:

I have read else where that others also have problems connecting to corporate wifi. I imagine that the apps dont have means of using the login so they cannot connect. The browser uses the login because the login opens once you begin to browse.

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Networking works off of "port numbers". For example, unsecure internet (HTTP) is port 80, secure internet (HTTPS, you'll see a padlock on some browsers) is port 443. Pinging, email services, etc... all use different port numbers. When you type in http://androidforums.com the computer uses port 53 to go to the "DNS Server" to lookup the IP# to get to the webserver's IP address.

For security reasons, network administrators (NA) will lock down all the port numbers the computers don't need to use- they know about the common ones, DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, pop3 (email), etc..
List of TCP and UDP port numbers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Your NAs probably don't know about Android Market. Ask them to unblock port 5228 on TCP and UDP and that should work.
Ip port used by Android market store ? - Android Market Help (It's also listed on that wikipedia page.)

As for other apps, you'll have to ask the developers which ports they're using and ask your University NAs to unblock those also.

sorry for bumping an old thread but i got the transformer on black friday and tried to connect it to my university's wifi today. it wouldn't connect because android apparently has problems connecting to wlan controllers and wouldn't redirect me to the login page.

what i did was manually type in https://1.1.1.1/login.html and it would bypass the wlan redirect and finally take me to the login page. this is for a cisco 4404 enterprise wlc so you might have to do something slightly different for other kinds of access points.

this is definitely worth a try if you can't log into the wifi with your android device

Kind of wierd as my corporate always redirects me to the login page from the 1.1.1.1 address, guess its the redirect settings that needed to be configured. only issue i have is time out on the secure wireles in which i have to re-authenticate again...

hahaha what said:

sorry for bumping an old thread but i got the transformer on black friday and tried to connect it to my university's wifi today. it wouldn't connect because android apparently has problems connecting to wlan controllers and wouldn't redirect me to the login page.

what i did was manually type in https://1.1.1.1/login.html and it would bypass the wlan redirect and finally take me to the login page. this is for a cisco 4404 enterprise wlc so you might have to do something slightly different for other kinds of access points.

this is definitely worth a try if you can't log into the wifi with your android device

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hahaha what said:

sorry for bumping an old thread but i got the transformer on black friday and tried to connect it to my university's wifi today. it wouldn't connect because android apparently has problems connecting to wlan controllers and wouldn't redirect me to the login page.

what i did was manually type in https://1.1.1.1/login.html and it would bypass the wlan redirect and finally take me to the login page. this is for a cisco 4404 enterprise wlc so you might have to do something slightly different for other kinds of access points.

this is definitely worth a try if you can't log into the wifi with your android device

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Awesome, thanks for sharing!