The Windows instructions assume that the Windows client has a custom IP configuration (manual or DHCP with manual IP Address). Anyone that is configured for DHCP on their Windows Box can just connect to the McDonalds’ network immediately just as easily as they could if on a Mac. The exact same instructions would apply if your Macintosh had a custom IP configuration.<\/p>\n
What seems to be the actual problem here is two-fold:<\/p>\n
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- Windows Users generally don’t understand networking or IP addresses or DHCP or DNS servers. They are generally so inept at what this is that McDonalds so a need to expand the setup instructions since people trying to connect had custom addresses setup and couldn’t get online. This has supposedly been improved in Windows 7.<\/li>\n
- Mac Users like feeling special in a world full of “idiots” or “Microsoft is full of idiots”. Take your pick.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn truth, Mac and Windows computers can be affected by the exact same issue if either client has a custom IP configuration. In fact, the flyer itself can be completely turned around to assume the Windows User is using DHCP and thus will connect instantly and the Mac User is not and thus requires additional steps to resolve this issue:<\/div>\n\n
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- Navigate to the Apple Menu (top left hand corner of your desktop)<\/li>\n
- Select this and select “System Preferences”<\/li>\n
- Select “Network”<\/li>\n
- \u00a0Select Airport and select “Advanced”<\/li>\n
- Navigate to this tab and change the drop down from Manual or DHCP with Manual IP Address to “Use DHCP \/ Automatic”<\/li>\n
- *You may have to enter your admin password*<\/li>\n
- Save this selection and close System Preferences<\/li>\n
- Attempt to connect again, wait for an IP address to be handed out, open Safari and you’re good<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\nThis is exactly what would be shown in image form in the event that the Mac user also had a custom IP configuration. It may actually exceed the steps required by Windows users. An alternative that I would choose to resolve this wouldn’t be to change these settings. I would go to Location in the Apple Menu and create a new one so I can retain my old network settings and will delete that new profile when I get home. That’s just me but, then again, I wouldn’t be mooching off Free Wi-Fi at McDonalds.<\/div>\nTo make matters worse, Gizmodo didn’t take this image….<\/div>\n@macpricesaus<\/a> on Twitter appears to be the account that actually captured the image at an Australian McDonalds. Then, shit blew up.<\/div>\n\n
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- I believe the first person to retweet this image was Josh (aka Digeratii)<\/a> in the USA. This had 209 favorites and 1400+ r<\/a>etweets. Josh’s most popular tweet ever according to FavStar.FM<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- MacPricesAUS then threw up a blog post with the image<\/a>. (which has zero comments or retweets)<\/li>\n
- The amount of blogs that picked this up are in the thousands but this Tumblr Employee has a very popular post of it<\/a> (look at all of those reblogs!)<\/li>\n
- This site was next to post it up<\/a> and obviously someone at Gizmodo reads that site because that’s the one they linked to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
Most of the places I’ve seen this picture (it has been viewed over 200,000 times on TwitPic alone) have linked to some other source that isn’t the original poster. I only took a few minutes for me to find the original poster of the image (5 clicks actually). The fact that a huge site like Gizmodo doesn’t link to the original is absolutely disgusting.<\/div>\nSome people did link to the original and the poster of the image recognized that this morning:<\/div>\n\n\n
“@AronT<\/a> @gruber<\/a> @Digeratii<\/a> i should of put a watermark on it haha :) Thanks for the credit @ArtonT<\/a> :D”<\/p>\n
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- MacPricesAUS then threw up a blog post with the image<\/a>. (which has zero comments or retweets)<\/li>\n
- I believe the first person to retweet this image was Josh (aka Digeratii)<\/a> in the USA. This had 209 favorites and 1400+ r<\/a>etweets. Josh’s most popular tweet ever according to FavStar.FM<\/a>.<\/li>\n