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Please help me with a fairly simple wired/wireless network setup

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fumbduck

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I am currently living in a hotel with my girlfriend because we are waiting on our new apartment to be ready and our house just sold. The hotel does not have Wifi.

However, the hotel room comes with 1 wired RJ45 Lan connection. BEtween the two of us we have: 3 laptops (all pretty recent, pretty nice laptops with both a 10/100 port and wireless networking) I also have 1 Airlink Wireless-N Router (backwards compatible).

How can I set it up, either through internet connection sharing or however, that we can connect to the internet from the RJ45 port in the wall through the wireless in our laptops?

Do I hook the router to the connection or do I hook a computer and set up some ad-hoc network and use internet connection sharing?

Basically how do I create the easiest, most functional wireless network for us to share the 1 internet connection with the following ingredients:
- 1 rj45 port in the wall
- 1 Airlink wireless Router
- 3 laptops with both 10/100 ports and wireless
- a few cat5 cables

I used to be well versed in this stuff but times have changed. Please help!

 
I think this should work:
Hook the wall to the routers WAN (incoming) connector and configure the router. Then you can either use the wired or wireless connection on the router.

If not maybe just a simple wired switch would work.
 
??? If you already have the router Im assuming you have used it before. Just hook the router to the wall jack then join the wireless network (or wired if it has additional ethernet ports). No need for ad-hoc or ICS.

Think of the wall jack as your dsl\cable modem.
 
Originally posted by: TheKub
??? If you already have the router Im assuming you have used it before. Just hook the router to the wall jack then join the wireless network (or wired if it has additional ethernet ports). No need for ad-hoc or ICS.

Think of the wall jack as your dsl\cable modem.
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I've already tried this. i actually have not used this particular router before, I just opened it. Bought it at fry's months ago and finally got to use it.... I'm very familiar with setting up routers though, I just couldn't get this one to work as you describe
 
Originally posted by: fumbduck

I've already tried this. i actually have not used this particular router before, I just opened it. Bought it at fry's months ago and finally got to use it.... I'm very familiar with setting up routers though, I just couldn't get this one to work as you describe
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Did you try plugging a laptop directly into the wall and seeing if it works?

*I assume you have because you are posting but you may be posting from a different location, but I have to check. Ive been to a few hotels that required you to request\pay a fee to activate the internet connection.
 
Set the wireless router as a switch/access point. That way it lets the DHCP server that the hotel has pick the addresses. You may have a problem getting an internet connection because of how the hotel assigns IPs. It may only give out one per room.
 
Originally posted by: ChAoTiCpInOy
Set the wireless router as a switch/access point. That way it lets the DHCP server that the hotel has pick the addresses. You may have a problem getting an internet connection because of how the hotel assigns IPs. It may only give out one per room.
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?? A router is going to take the address that it is given and perform DHCP and NAT for clients that are attached to it and route requests through that single IP\connection.
 
If the hotel is doing any kind of authentication or charging you a daily fee you could run into problems getting it to work with the router. So attach the laptop to the wall jack and make sure there isn't any of that going on. If not then you just plug your router into the wall and carry on.
 
I have bright idea. :light: Ask the Hotel's people how the system work.

And if (God forbid) you have to live for a while with one computer working at the time I think it safe to say that your life is Not in jeopardy.

Otherwise if the hotel allow personal Router.

Network Segregation - http://www.ezlan.net/shield.html

If they do not care about how many IPs you use.

Wireless Router as an Access Point - http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html
 
Originally posted by: JackMDS
I have bright idea. :light: Ask the Hotel's people how the system work.

And if (God forbid) you have to live for a while with one computer working at the time I think it safe to say that your life is Not in jeopardy.

Otherwise if the hotel allow personal Router.

Network Segregation - http://www.ezlan.net/shield.html

If they do not care about how many IPs you use.

Wireless Router as an Access Point - http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html
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Having a bad day Jack?? I've seen far dumber questions asked here and you patiently responded.
 
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