Traveling and Wireless

[remn]

Hi All

I will be traveling soon and will be staying in a hotel where I know the room has a wired internet connection. I have a few devices that only have a wireless connection. I will have my laptop with me and this has both.
Is there any way that I can access the wired connection in the room with my wireless devices?

Thanks in advance.
Rem

[paul9]

It should be simple to connect the laptop with a cable and set it's wireless up as an AP (access point)
The other devices then use your laptop much as they would use the wireless router in your house.
Try it out at home.

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[remn]

Thank you for the replies, but it looks like it might be more complex. I work for a large corporation and they have the laptop locked down pretty tight. ICS has been 'disabled by the Network Administrator'
Not sure if I will be a ble to use the laptop for this. Might have to haul my own laptop if i want to use the internet in my room.

[paul9]

See your IT people to get something set up in advance. They will probably be able and willing to help. Otherwise a cheap wireless router might be a good solution, instead of lugging a second laptop.

[remn]

See your IT people to get something set up in advance. They will probably be able and willing to help. Otherwise a cheap wireless router might be a good solution, instead of lugging a second laptop.

Thanks but I don't have enough time to log the ticket/50 emails/then 'no you cannot' with Babu in India
I do have a small wireless router and it does have an 'access point' mode. I was under the impression that I would need to know certain details of the network I am trying to connect to this to. I could find the IP addy of the room connection thru ipconfig and then set up the router as an access point. But don't I have to know a range of unused addresses on the same subnet?

[paul9]

No, your router should deal with the connections on your side. The router configuration page should show you the address the hotel assigns to you. Your side of the router is effectively a separate network to the hotel side.