![]() ![]() Now you need to go and turn on Internet sharing. I suggest something memorable (I often have fun and name it things like “Hackers Rule” or similar, to freak out other hotel guests, but that’s another story):Ĭheck “Require Password” and enter a password: you don’t *have* to do this but since anyone who connects can see the public material on your own computer, I strongly encourage even a rudimentary password. The system them asks you to name your network. ![]() The easiest way is to click on the wifi icon on your computer and choose “Create Network…”: If you have an Ethernet option and the right wire in your room, however, here’s how you proceed… That is, you can’t connect to the hotel wireless via wifi and also serve as a base unit. The wrinkle: the device that’s going to act as a base station and let other computers piggy-back on the Internet connection has to be hard-wired into the network. If all you have are laptops, there’s another cool solution, one that’s super easy to set up on a Mac and super hard to set up – in my experience – on a PC: Set up a computer-to-computer network so that your computer becomes a wifi base station! For $99 it’s a tiny little device that does just what you want. What I really like are little wifi base unit gizmos like the Apple Airport Express or similar. That doesn’t preclude us from having a bit of hacking fun and trying to circumvent things, does it? However, I suppose it’s their hotel, not ours, so they get to pick their policies. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve spent more in a month on hotel Internet than on my high-speed connection in my office! ![]() Yeah, it’s amazing to me that all hotels don’t just give you free Internet access as part of your room charge, but too many of ’em are run by accountants rather than people focused on the customer experience. ![]()
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