<logankriete@gmail.com> wrote in message
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What I find the most interesting in the $10/day. Bummer, indeed!

I sure hope that doesn't become a trend... I'm with you, at $10/day, I'd
probably, uhm, "aquire" access as well. After 6PM, its not like they would
know, anyway. The only people there after 6PM are the front desk people, a
general utility guy, a security guy -- and none of them have a clue.

If anything, just split it between a room-mate. (The crossover cable idea
by miso is good.)

Staying at hotels often, I have a relatively small AP that can run in
repeater mode that I keep in my laptop bag. Hotels I stay at usually have
free wireless, although often they just have one AP per floor and the signal
can be intermittent. Often I set it up as a repeater, not just for myself
but anyone else that wants to use it. I don't care if anyone else does. I
was repeating once at a Holiday Inn and had, at one point, five other folks
using my AP. I also even use the AP often if there isn't an internet pipe.
I just set it up as a standalone AP, so myself and coworkers can get an
expedient LAN up and going for multiplayer games. Stayed at one hotel for
such a long period that I had a key to the utility room on my floor, so I
could go in and power cycle their cheap Linksys AP whenever it locked up...