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From: Joseph Capgras on 24 May 2010 20:30 Michelle Steiner wrote: > I'm leaving on a jet plane, but I'll be back again... > > Actually, I'll be departing tomorrow morning, and I'll be taking my Airport > Express with me. I'm not sure that I'll need it, but I suspect that I > will. The hotel advertises free internet access in certain areas: > � Free Wireless High Speed Internet Access in Business Center > � Free High Speed Internet Access in Business Center > � Free Wireless High Speed Internet Access in Public Areas > > But in guest rooms, they say > � High Speed Internet Access in All Guest Rooms (Free) > > Therefore, I expect that all they have in the rooms is ethernet. So, as I > said, I'm taking my Airport Express with me, so I'll be able to connect my > iPhone via WiFi instead of AT&T Wireless when I'm in my room. > > (Oh, if you're interested, I'll be in NYC for my 50th anniversary > high-school reunion.) > Or you could just pack a cable-- or use the one in your room there-- or borrow one from the front desk...
From: Charles on 24 May 2010 20:50 In article <michelle-80CE13.16455424052010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > Therefore, I expect that all they have in the rooms is ethernet. So, as I > said, I'm taking my Airport Express with me, so I'll be able to connect my > iPhone via WiFi instead of AT&T Wireless when I'm in my room. Sounds like a plan. I have run into the same situation. Ethernet in rooms and Wi Fi only in public areas. -- Charles
From: Charles on 24 May 2010 20:56 In article <htf5nr$ult$1(a)news.albasani.net>, Joseph Capgras <sosies(a)double.net> wrote: > Or you could just pack a cable-- or use the one in your room there-- or > borrow one from the front desk... Besides being tethered to a desk, one would be sharing the hotel network with who knows what security. With the Airport Express her laptop will be behind a NAT router. I always take my Airport Express and if there is Ethernet I use that with the AE rather than the hotel WiFi. -- Charles
From: nospam on 24 May 2010 20:58 In article <240520102056416139%fort514(a)mac.com>, Charles <fort514(a)mac.com> wrote: > > Or you could just pack a cable-- or use the one in your room there-- or > > borrow one from the front desk... > > Besides being tethered to a desk, one would be sharing the hotel > network with who knows what security. With the Airport Express her > laptop will be behind a NAT router. I always take my Airport Express > and if there is Ethernet I use that with the AE rather than the hotel > WiFi. if they can sniff packets on the wired side they can sniff them on the wireless side. very few places isolate the ports.
From: Richard Maine on 24 May 2010 21:49
Charles <fort514(a)mac.com> wrote: > In article > <michelle-80CE13.16455424052010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, > Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > > Therefore, I expect that all they have in the rooms is ethernet. So, as I > > said, I'm taking my Airport Express with me, so I'll be able to connect my > > iPhone via WiFi instead of AT&T Wireless when I'm in my room. > > Sounds like a plan. I have run into the same situation. Ethernet in > rooms and Wi Fi only in public areas. The place I was in 3 weeks ago only claimed WiFi in the public areas, with ethernet in the rooms, but my daughter's fairly new Macbook was able to get on fine from our room. My 4-year-old MacBook Pro (handed down from my daughter when it started getting flaky about charging; she needed something reliable for schoolwork, while my portable needs were only for keeping in touch on vacations) could not get a reliable signal in the room. I needed to either go to a public area or borrow a cable from the front desk. I had not thought to bring one, but they had them there. -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment. domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain |