I know that there has been a fix for the wifi issues in theory, but I'm getting a really annoying problem with public wifi at the hotel I'm staying in. When you connect, it takes you to a login page where you input the login given at check-in. This then connects and warns that if you close the page that it will disconnect you. I've left the page open, but found I kept on getting disconnected so I then tried keeping IE docked on the side of whatever app I'm actually using and this seems to work which implies there is a problem with how Windows RT deals with IE when it's in the background. This is also a problem win my WP8 device, however on my ipad or my wife's iPhone there is no such problem - if safari is just sitting in the background with the login page then the connection remains open.
This is really frustrating and I wondered if anyone else had come across this. I appreciate that it may be a rare case of a public wifi that requires the login page to remain open, but it's still annoying that the issue seems to be specific to Windows RT / WP8 OS. The other issue with this is that when I try to connect to the vpn service I use when on public wifi, the connection drops after 20 seconds or so (again must be related to the issues of how Windows is handling the connection as whenI use the vpn pn my wife's iphone it stays connected with no problem.
Does anyone have any idea if this is something that might be solved with some connection settings, something to help keep it alive?