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I'm currently using a wireless network in a hotel. Because of this, I set the network location to "Public". Everything was fine for a couple of days but yesterday I was unable to connect to a specific set of websites, including all of the stack exchange sites. After much trial and error, I finally decided to disable windows firewall, and I was able to access the sites again.

I'm running windows 7.

My question is this:

  1. How can I prevent windows firewall from blocking these sites? Is this standard behavior for networks that I classify as public?

  2. If this is standard behavior, how can I change the network location to Home or Work?

I'm currently surfing without a firewall just so I can post this question...

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What browser and operating system are you using? Check out this (superuser.com/questions/270524/…) previous post. – slotishtype Jun 7 '11 at 9:19
Can't you use trusted sites if your using IE? – steve Jun 7 '11 at 9:34
@slotishtype I'm using Win7. That question appears to be the exact opposite of what I'm trying to do. – Mark Brown Jun 7 '11 at 11:41
@steve I use chrome as my primary browser, but if I turn the firewall back on, I'm unable to view superuser (and other sites) in any browser, including IE. – Mark Brown Jun 7 '11 at 11:42
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