Networking at a hotel

[monkey333]

Going to have fre wired at our hotel, but wireless is pricey. So I thought I would taken AP and plug it in and run my own wireless network. Anyone else done this? Anything to look out for?
Thanks..

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Wired or wifi at a hotel is going to be slow period.

 

[monkey333]

It is s. Korea so hopefully it won't be too bad. The connection was decent last time, 3 years ago.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

It is s. Korea so hopefully it won't be too bad. The connection was decent last time, 3 years ago.

You're in luck then, hotels in the U.S. are very slow.

 

[monkey333]

I assume their IT support won't notice, assuming they are even looking. Set it up as a dhcp server, turn of broadcast ssid and I should be good to go. Running dd wrt on a linksys 54 wrt.

 

[ImDonly1]

You should be able to, isn't this the whole reason they have travel routers?

 

[theevilsharpie]

You should be able to use an AP with a wired connection, but you risk interfering with the hotel's wireless network. This shouldn't cause you any legal problems (I'm not familiar with Korea's laws in that regard), but you may run afoul of rules you agreed to when booking your room.

To reduce the risk of interference, you can use an AP that operates in the 5GHz range. There are a lot more channels available, and at least in the US, the use of 5GHz bands indoors is relatively light.

 

[alkemyst]

Wired or wifi at a hotel is going to be slow period.

Depends on hotel. However, even with ultra fast web/email; many are throttling video traffic which sucks.

I have found calling ahead works really well to verify the networks you will be on.

Also some hotels are only offering web-based authentication. This really hampers many devices

In a bind I always have my hotspot.

 

[monkey333]

I guess worst case is I hook the laptop up to the wired, and share the net connection with the router..

 

[unokitty]

Two aspects to this. One would be legal

I'm not knowledgeable about S. Korea's legal environment. Though, I'd be surprised if something like this wouldn't at least violate the Hotel's acceptable user policy.

The other aspect would be technical
From a technical perspective, I'd make sure that I was using a different channel than the Hotel's APs.

If it was convenient, I'd probably want to use a MAC changer utility on the router...

I would also keep the router turned off when I wasn't using it.

Realize that if they want to, its not too hard to track down a rogue access point.


Best of luck,
Uno

 

[monkey333]

Two aspects to this. One would be legal

I'm not knowledgeable about S. Korea's legal environment. Though, I'd be surprised if something like this wouldn't at least violate the Hotel's acceptable user policy.

The other aspect would be technical
From a technical perspective, I'd make sure that I was using a different channel than the Hotel's APs.

If it was convenient, I'd probably want to use a MAC changer utility on the router...

I would also keep the router turned off when I wasn't using it.

Realize that if they want to, its not too hard to track down a rogue access point.


Best of luck,
Uno

is it naive to think they won't be looking?