Wifi configuration

[airplaneman]

Hey, I am going of to University next year and am planning on living in res with some friends. There is an apartment style dorm that has 3 separate bedrooms, a lounge, bathroom and kitchen. I believe it is fairly large too. I was thinking of building a network server for the 3 of us but the problem is, I want something that isn't public to the whole school. If I were to buy a router, would I be able to plug it into an Ethernet port in the room and have our own WI-FI network or better yet since I don't know if there are any Ethernet ports, would it be able to 'feed' off the school's WI-FI network and create it's own protected network that only me and my friends can access? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I think this would be extremely convenient..

 

[JackMDS]

It depends on how the schooll configured their system, and their willing to allow it.

 

[airplaneman]

Ok...what type of configuration would they need to have? And how would they find out?

 

[yinan]

The school wouldnt be able to find out if you bought a switch and another network card for each computer and put that card on another network and shared that way.