Re: Travel Routers away from home connectivity JMK wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a Linksys WRT54GC and I am at a hotel where there is wireless
> but it is weak. I'd like to use this in my room to attempt to get a
> more reliable signal. The hotel only has wireless, no option for
> connecting this to a LAN. There are no "sign in" pages or anything for
> the wireless, it's 100% open and unsecured. (Wheeeeeee...)
>
> I set it up at home before leaving and once I changed my primary
> routers' default IP, I was able to connect to my new travel router and
> see it and use the internet no problemo. In this hotel, I have been
> able to connect to my travel router and the web config utility but have
> no internet connection. Everything times out. I can reselect the hotel
> wireless and get internet immediately. I've reset my router's settings
> back to factory default to remove the security I set up in case that
> had something to do with it but it didn't help.
>
> I'm sure I'm just missing something really simple... but I cannot
> figure out how to get it working here.
>
> Help please!
Get as dial-up connection with an ISP like Earthlink, connect your
computer to the phone line and be done with it, like I am doing now in a
hotel. It has wireless too and I use the wireless from time to time, bit
I am on dial-up most of the time, reasonable speed, without downloading. |