Just to warn you I'm not very technical. I configured my airport so it was working alright at home (ie connecting my iPad to the internet with my home broadband). It works just fine in all the hotels I have been to with wired Internet - just plug in the Internet cable, plug into the power, it starts booting up and the Internet is there in less than a minute. I didn't do anything other than the standard set up, and certainly nothing to do with 'bridges'