Physics Hacker

The Edwards coffeehouse in Dortmund is a nice place to work with some friends, while having a beer or a coffee due to it’s huge tables, free wireless and central location.

Unfortunately their wireless network router is quite old and apparently gets confused by something in the OSX network stack (probably some bonjour packets). Whatever the reason is, the net effect is that you can connect to the network “edwardsnet” but you don’t get an IP address from it’s router. So the only way to solve this is to assign yourself a valid ip and configure the gateway and DNS by hand.

IPv6 Adress: 192.168.2.XXX  (best guess XXX in the range from 50 to 100)
Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0
Router:      192.168.2.1
DNS:         8.8.8.8        (one of Googles public DNS servers)

Please note that you kind of have to guess a free ip. So please try to be polite and change your address if strange network behaviour occurs. Maybe best thing is to guess an ip use that one to scan the network using some pings and than use one of the ips that seem to be free.