Open wifi in hotels

Hi
I have 2 playbooks that we're trying to use in a hotel.
the problem we seem to have is this - the wifi is open and gives you access when you enter the code on the first web page you see - which is pushed at you byt the hotel servers.
Problem is that the playbook hangs on obtaining IP address
I have a friend who is there now with that problem - what she has done is to link her iphone then tether the playbook to the iphone
A bit odd...

I discovered that if I was having difficulty getting the hot spot login page, I had to disable Bluetooth on the the Playbook.  I think it knew it was having problems connecting via WiFi, so it tried to run out the Bridge connection.

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      Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
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      Total Number Of Cores:          2
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    cant believe it nobody reply.. very dissapointed ..i bring my mac to experrt and he reset my mac to the original version 10.6.8 .. n seriously after it done.. the connection as i mentioned which annoyed me settled and it works like a charm.. when i try to check update my software ...it showned combined software for 10.6.8.. however i still afraid to update it.. i'm still in trauma...

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