Trouble Connecting to Wifi (tried averything).

My next door neighbour Carl has gone on holiday and he has given me the password to his wifi so I can use it while he is away on my ipod. I see his wifi on my ipod, put the password in and connect successfully. When I try to visit pages it says "Safari can't open the page because it can't find the server". I have scoured these forums and tried every method I saw. This includes resetting my ipod, restoring default settings, renewing the lease, forgetting the network etc. I can do all I can without physically breaking into his house and fiddling with the modem. When I look at the wifi's settings I see IP address and subnet mask, nothing else has info entered. Also, the signal is very week, before connecting, just the first dot is shaded (as opposed to the lines on the icon). Once I am connected, however, all the lines are bright blue. Can anyone please help me?
The firmware is 1.1.3 and I have iTunes 7.5.0.20
Thanks in advance.

I am no expert guys but it could be they have the wireless set up with MAC filtering. Basically that means you need the MAC setting AND you need to be set up as part of their network. But, maybe another person who is more of an expert in this area could respond to your post.
By the way, the forum has some great information on setting up your own wireless network at home as well as the correct settings for your ipod.
It took me about a week or two to get mine exactly how I want it.
I don't have much info in the way of getting onto another person and/or companies wireless network. I did manage to use it the other day at a local coffee shop that had free wifi service. It was nice. They didn't have any extra filtering so it made it really easy to log in.

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