Connected to LAN, but no net connection found!

Hi

When I connect to the LAN of an internet cafe, my system tray shows a 100MBps connection, but when I try and surf the net using internet explorer, it cant find a net connection. I have updated the IP address settings in the TCP/IP section, but still no joy. Help!!

Any help is appreciated

 

Internet cafe's use a private network with a proxy server. You generally have to pay to get a login to the proxy server. However you should get an IP address and gateway regardless. You should make sure you have that at least, then when you open a web browser (generally internet explorer), it will automatically take you to the login page. This is done through the DHCP server the Internet cafe is using.