The arduous process for getting on the WiFi at Holiday Inn IHG hotels, or how to force the wireless auth page to come up

Usually neverssl.com works great for forcing the WiFi authentication page to come up. But not at the Holiday Inn Express I stayed at recently. I ended up entering the IP address for the local router, which brought up the auth page.

To find that address, I connected to the WiFi network, then looked at its DNS address. On a Mac, you can find it under:

System Preferences > Network > Wi-Fi > Advanced… > DNS

In my case, it was 192.168.128.1

Yours will likely start with 192.168. If all else fails, try one of these:

192.168.1.1

192.168.1.0

192.168.0.1

192.168.0.0

192.168.1.255

192.168.0.255