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Originally Posted by Harmon
Are you saying that you don't have to use Airport Utility to get it to working right in a wired hotel?
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not really. i set it up once with the apple utility, set up my SID, password, encryption method, etc. the trick is to set it up in
bridge mode. then you use the hotel's dhcp servers on all your devices. the hotel just thinks they are all plugged in to the ethernet. you go through whatever login page you have to and go surf happily.
i stay in a variety of hotel chains and am a platinum member of many brands. there is no consistency in wired vs. wireless, free vs. charged that i have ever found. silly.
an added bonus, if you have a co-worker or family member in your room or one nearby, they can use it too.
i do fire up the utility once in a while to update the firmware, a painless process which has never lost my settings, etc. it's even discovered other APE's out there from time to time.