Discrimination against anything not *******/IE ?

[leclerc65]

At some hotels and free hotspots in Canada , if I connect using XP & IE then everything is fine. When I use Ubuntu or some other distros I will get kicked out after dozen of minutes and cannot reconnect.
When connecting I am sent thru a site named Eyeinwireless.com , it looks like the control comes from there.
My netbook is dual boot , but I use no anti-virus for XP - using it in such public environment is suicidal.:(

[Yes]

It's hardly discrimination...

[RiceMonster]

Their network, their rules. Deal with it.

[sydbat]

Their network, their rules. Deal with it.This.

[jrothwell97]

It's hardly discrimination...

+1

This sounds more like lazy programming and engineering than anything else - hardly deliberate discrimination.

That said, from a practical standpoint, I'd recommend making sure XP is fully updated, and definitely install some anti-virus software if you're running as an administrator. (Microsoft's own Security Essentials (http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/) is the best option here: it's free, doesn't get in your way and does the job very well.)

[HermanAB]

It is probably a DHCP client problem on your system.