Comments on: How To: Setup AT&T Free Wi-Fi on Your iPhone

By: kram

kram — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:08:50 +0000

I’m confused about the use of the term wifi: if its wifi, like the wifi in every coffee shop in the northern hemisphere, and my phone can read those wifi signals and theoretically connect to it like my lap top can, why must i use the AT&T hot spots like starbucks, why cant i connect to my own wifi signal at home?

By: aussy

aussy — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:47:19 +0000

I had a similar problem called AT&T 888-888-7520 and they say the sim card number is not correctly registered, so they updated it on their system and now I get access to the free wifi at att hotspots on my iphone 3g

By: trock4u

trock4u — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:23:37 +0000

it work the first time for me, but the second time i couldn’t connect. I was in hurry and didn’t have time to call att support guess next time I would find out.

By: dg

dg — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:08:38 +0000

worked for me except I would have to reclick on the link in the text after my phone woke up from sleeping for longer than a few minutes. Wonder if AT&T discriminates between 3G phones and the originals

By: cg

cg — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:15:47 +0000

I think ATT system text messages still work if you’ve disabled texting.

By: byronhicks

byronhicks — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:06:02 +0000

What if you have SMS turned off on your AT&T plan? I hate texting, and I wasn’t going to pay extra for a service I don’t use. I had AT&T turn off texting completely on my account so I wouldn’t have to pay $.20 for every unsolicited text message sent to me. Does this mean I have no way of getting to use the Wifi at Fivebucks?

By: PSM

PSM — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:41:55 +0000

Doesn’t AT&T know the MAC address of my phone? Don’t they know that phone belongs to an active subscriber? Why do we need to do anything? Honestly 3G is fast enough to me for most browsing, this sounds like logging in will take more time than I would gain from the speed of wifi.

By: cg

cg — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:00:43 +0000

I had a problem connecting, too. After entering my phone number, I got a screen saying “unable to complete your connection. Please try again later.” This happened to me at 3 different Statbucks on several different days. So I called AT&T Internet services ( not wireless) and they fixed it for me. It now works with no problem. 888-888-7520

By: Merf

Merf — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:32:43 +0000

I tried it this weekend as well and got a message that the service wasn’t working and to try again later. I got the right screen because it asked for my phone number. I tried it a couple of time to make sure I was enter the information correctly but to no avail. Maybe not all Starbucks are up to date or something. I’ll try again some other time.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:30:00 +0000

Not me, I’m here near the University of Denver. Upon trying to sign on I did not get the screen asking a phone number. I got the normal scree one would get when logging on. I called AT&T to ask about the username and password and was told that I need to ask the employees at Starbucks. The Barista did not have one so I gave up:(