The issue isn not poor signal, The Wifi networks in your area have probably been locked down to prevent unauthorised access. So unless your good at hacking etc you have to keep hoping that one day, a free wifi access point will pop upin your area
chairman, basically, there are two security options provided in public wi-fi system to the best of my knowledge, i stand to be corrected,
1. WEP. This one would require a user to enter a particular HEX key provided by the service provider and from the post, it is very clear that WEP is not the case here.
2. MAC ADDRESS AUTHENTICATION: this one would not allow you connect atall. If you don't connect, you cannot even try to obtain an ip address and the poster is trying to obtain an ip address,
so what are you not talking?