AP setup in a hotel

I am thinking of buying a small AP for use when I am traveling. Many
hotels now provide WIRED internet access that would assigned you a
dynamic IP address to your laptop. Most of the time the first time you
connect, it would bring you to a "subscribe website" to which you would
have to agree to pay or some sort of legal acknowledgement. This is not
a problem. I would like to hook up a small/mini Access Point to the
ethernet cable in the hotel room, and then enable my wireless
connection in my laptop so I am not tethered to the wire. Would I be
able to see the subscription page so that I can get connected to the
internet even though the laptop has a different MAC address than the
AP?

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In <(E-Mail Removed) .com> on 22 Nov 2005
08:01:22 -0800, "cmdrdata" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I am thinking of buying a small AP for use when I am traveling. Many
>hotels now provide WIRED internet access that would assigned you a
>dynamic IP address to your laptop. Most of the time the first time you
>connect, it would bring you to a "subscribe website" to which you would
>have to agree to pay or some sort of legal acknowledgement. This is not
>a problem. I would like to hook up a small/mini Access Point to the
>ethernet cable in the hotel room, and then enable my wireless
>connection in my laptop so I am not tethered to the wire. Would I be
>able to see the subscription page so that I can get connected to the
>internet even though the laptop has a different MAC address than the
>AP?

Yes, if the AP is simply bridging.

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cmdrdata wrote:
> I am thinking of buying a small AP for use when I am traveling. Many
> hotels now provide WIRED internet access that would assigned you a
> dynamic IP address to your laptop. Most of the time the first time you
> connect, it would bring you to a "subscribe website" to which you
> would have to agree to pay or some sort of legal acknowledgement.
> This is not a problem. I would like to hook up a small/mini Access
> Point to the ethernet cable in the hotel room, and then enable my
> wireless connection in my laptop so I am not tethered to the wire.
> Would I be able to see the subscription page so that I can get
> connected to the internet even though the laptop has a different MAC
> address than the AP?

Check out the WiFlyer at http://www.alwaysonwireless.com/wiflyer.html

It's a small shirt pocket sized AP that can connect to LAN's, and also has a
dial-up modem built in for those places that don't have a network. Great for
traveling, I've been using one for years.