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Update: went across the street to another open wifi and it worked
Update: went across the street to another open wifi and it worked

That leads me even more to believe that it was something with the connection you were on. Either they set up their connection to block the appstore, or it had something else really funky going on with it, maybe a problem somewhere in the DNS. Its very rare, but I have seen things like that happen.
Thank you for the update, and I'm glad it's working properly. Take care...![]()
There's no limitation as you think. You can surf and download apps when you get connected to the Internet. Secure, unsecure doesn't matter.
