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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Hotel problem with Asus wl-330ge

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:28:26 -0500 Sam Lewis wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Dave Saville
><os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:09:19 -0500 Sam Lewis wrote:
>> <snip>
>>
>>>So is your AP going from the hotels wired to wifi to your laptop? or
>>>Hotel Wifi to the wired card on your laptop?.
>>
>> The latter.
>
>That would be the wrong configuration for an AP.  You need to use it
>as a bridge so that it is a wifi client and then have it go to your
>wired port on your laptop.  Then you could use MAC address cloning in
>necessary, probably not, if they didn't want to assign you two IP
>addresses, one for your bridge and one for your wired NIC.
>
>AP aren't designed to bridge.  I think Lewis told me a few years ago
>if one did that then the AP's couldn't be used to connect any other
>clients and that they would be locked to each other only.  So that may
>be why it didn't work.
>
>Did this configuration ever work?

Sam

I said a couple of mails back that AP was a mistake, I meant client
mode. In this mode it acts as a normal wifi card. Yes it does work -
normally. 

What is a neat trick with this box is if the hotel has a *wired*
connection that you can run it as a router and get more than one
computer on the same IP :-)

-- 
Regards

Dave Saville