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 Sunday, May 10, 2009
Travel Essentials: The Hotel Area Network

All hotels these days will give you an Internet connection of some sort. ironically the most expensive hotels will charge you an arm and a leg for it and the cheapest with often throw it in for free.

For uber-tech-geek travellers there is a bit of a problem though- it’s often hard to use the hotel internet when you’ve got multiple devices. Often they’ll lock your ‘purchase’ to a single MAC address and this means one machine and one machine only. Not ideal and the workar9unds such as MAC address spoofing are equally shitty- you can’t have more than one machine connected at a time.

My solution is to take a Wireless Travel router.

Router

I have a Linksys WRT54GC.

Really useful and well worth doing. I can now run multiple laptops either wired or wireless and my iPhone all off the one hotel internet purchase.

Toy Box | Travel|Sunday, May 10, 2009 12:02:40 AM UTC|Comments [1]|    

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 8:30:23 AM UTC
Chris to get this to work to you use the Mac address clone feature in the device? So if you wanted to connect 2 notebooks you enter one of the notebooks Mac addresses and then just wire the 2nd notebook to the switch or connect via WiFi.

Is this how it works?
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