Originally Posted by
hsmall
Can anyone help me please. I have an airport express set up as a bridge. But each new device (after the first) that I want to connect to it seems to require a fresh hotel charge. I assume that I need to connect to the internet and pay for it using my Macbook and then change the airport express's MAC address to that of the Macbook? Is that the way and if it is how, please, beacause I can't find it in the airport utility anywhere, can I change the airport express's MAC address.
I am a new-ish Mac user so if this question is very newbie-ish I apologise.
Very many thanks
I am a pc guy, so take this with a grain of salt. I don't think you want to set this up as a bridge, but as a router. The router will send one MAC address to your hotel ISP, and thus only one charge. Then it will do NAT (network address translation) to connect itself to whatever wireless devices you wish to use with that one connection. For instance, right now mine is serving my netbook, my son's dell laptop and my daughter's MacBook Pro-all from one connection and one charge.
I *believe* that the bridge just acts as a traffic cop between the peripheral devices and the ISP. But the ISP sees all the devices, thus the multiple charges.
Does the Airport have additional settings other than bridge you can use?