Issue connecting to public wifi - HTC 10 Questions & Answers

Hello guys. I've been having this issue to connect to public wifi (i.e. at Starbucks) ever since I updated to Nougat and Oreo. Non-rooted. The last time it worked was on Marshmallow.
Tried to restart phone, use different browsers, enter google.com or other sites as testing.... still can't connect to the public wifi with my HTC10. It won't popup the page where you need to enter 'starbucks wifi password' to enter. Although I can use my laptop to connect to it fine. So it's definitely my phone's issue.
Connection via 3G/LTE and private wifi is fine. Just the public wifi isn't working. Any ideas?

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Greetings da_druck
Problem Solved!
I tried different things like removing the wlan on my phone and adding it back up.
Adding a different dns-server, restarting the phone, etc.
This all doesn't solved the problem, and i thought it could be no problem with the router, as all the other pc's could connect to the net.
BUT i thought i should try to reboot the router itself, just to test everything and what shoud i say: Its working again. So it was no android problem.
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