Originally Posted by
sllevin
Although I see it mentioned...the simplest way for this is to simply set your router to a different MAC. You can chose one close to your laptop's (change just a couple of HEX values, but not the first three pairs) and you will be fine for these issues.
While you *could* in theory get into a situation where someone else is in the hotel with that bogus MAC address, it's a pretty unlikely happening. Even if you travel with co-workers who have similar laptops purchased at the same time.
Steve
So you're implying that hotels keep a list of MAC vendor prefixes that correspond to routers for the purpose of blocking them? That is pretty interesting. I thought Linksys also made NICs...what would prevent them from using the same prefix for both NICs and routers?