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тАО02-02-2011 07:08 AM
тАО02-02-2011 07:08 AM
I have a question.
Im trying to get wireless ethernet in the hotel room for my phone(s). Good wireless service is normally in the hotel lobby.
When abroad and in hotel rooms , we have the familiar ethernet port(s) for a laptop.
Is there anything I can plug into the ethernet port which will give a wireless access point for my phone(s) to connect to?
Thanks is advance.
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тАО02-03-2011 06:57 AM
тАО02-03-2011 06:57 AM
Re: Hotel Rooms and Ethernet ports for wireless service
If you use a wireless base station in this way, you probably should configure it for minimum transmission power necessary, so your wireless network won't reach too far beyond your hotel room.
It would also be smart to use encryption in your little wireless sub-network, especially if the hotel's intranet allows you to order some hotel services electronically: if a next-door neighbor accidentally uses your wireless network instead of the cable connection in his/her room, you might accidentally end up with some unwanted, expensive or embarrassing charges on your hotel bill.
Of course, if the hotel uses some kind of a login mechanism in their network connections (e.g. to include the network access costs to your bill), it isn't absolutely guaranteed you can login using a wireless base station and a phone browser.
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тАО02-03-2011 09:54 AM
тАО02-03-2011 09:54 AM
Re: Hotel Rooms and Ethernet ports for wireless service
The wireless access point, is that plug and play if I insert into an ethernet port or would I need to log onto the wireless access point and congiure it?
There is the airport wireless from apple but it's too expensive, I think anyway.
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тАО02-09-2011 12:35 AM
тАО02-09-2011 12:35 AM
SolutionAlthough Apple's Airport Express is small, I think Apple's products must be configured using a special software that is available for Windows and Mac only. So it would be less than ideal for use with smartphones.
Other manufacturers' access points are configurable using a regular Web browser, so if you end up in a hotel that has special configuration requirements, it would be possible to use the phone browser to change the configuration of your AP.
If at all possible, test before buying: some access points might use ActiveX in their configuration interface, which would make it pretty much impossible to use with a phone browser.
If you had problems setting up your AP in some particular hotel, the hotel would be unlikely to be able to offer technical help for configuring an AP: you would have to deal with any problems on your own.
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тАО02-25-2011 08:42 AM
тАО02-25-2011 08:42 AM
Re: Hotel Rooms and Ethernet ports for wireless service
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тАО02-25-2011 08:42 AM
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