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Dec 29, 2008, 7:55 am

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Originally Posted by hsmall

And when I set it that way it refuses an internet connection, which makes me wonder whether, as has been suggested elsewhere, the hotel's system is trained to recognise the MAC address as belonging to an Airport Express and declines a connection?

I think what is special about the D-Link which I didn't see in my Airports (not express, but the round big ones) is that it will clone the MAC of another machine and use it instead of its own MAC address.

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