Connection issue with public wifi

I'm spending a lot of time in hospitals these days and they provide a public wifi service.

Saddly, it does not seem to work at all with Indigo Touch, and I wonder why ?

When I launch Indigo Touch, I see the purple status bar at the bottom, indicating "Connecting..."
After less then a second the status bar reports "Failed to connect: The network connection was lost."
This cycles on and on, and Indigo Touch is unusable.

Other apps do not have any problems at all, I can use safari, mail, even Spyglass to monitor my SecuritySpy feed.
I wonder what is happening, and is there no way to force Indigo Touch to properly connect to my home server ?

I do not have a problem when using 3G, but inside these buildings there is no cellular service.

Any insight is appreciated.

[jay (support)]

What happens when you go to your reflector in Safari instead of Indigo Touch?

Does it connect at all? It could be they're blocking the port. I had a similar issue at work, changing to port 8080 fixed it for me!

I don't have a reflector subscription, I figured I didn't need it.
But if a relfector would solve my issue I might consider it (no e.t.a. on version 7 with the included reflector service I guess
Does reflector always use a standard port (80 ?)

It could indeed be the port number. I am connecting on port 8100 currently.
My SecuritySpy is on port 8000, and this works flawless.
I'll switch ports and see if it solves the problem.

[matt (support)]

Reflectors do use the standard HTTP and HTTPS ports, so if the problem is a firewall blocking the other ports then a reflector should work.