Originally Posted by xyzzy
If you are in a hotel with wireless internet access can you use this device to create your own private wireless network so you only have to purchase one MAC address of access from the hotel? More and more hotels seem to be going wireless these days...
Yes, and that is one of the reasons I bought this little gadget. Hotels are increasingly charging for each MAC address signing onto the network.
If I understand it correctly, in my scenario, if the device is set to Access Point, all of the laptops in my room would hook-up to the Internet through the hotel's wireless network with their own MAC address. Each would then be charged for the access.
However, if the device is set to router mode, the hotel network only sees the MAC address of the router and charges for one connection. All of the laptops connect to the router, which dynamcially assigns addresses to the laptops. The hotel only sees the single MAC address of the router.
In my case, looks like I'll be using router mode.