I'm sure someone here has gone to a convention and had some type of LAN party. Going on a company trip this weekend to Vegas. I don't give a fuck about Football, but everyone else is participating in ESPN's Fantasy Football league. They want to get in one room w/ their laptops for the draft. Anyone have any experience w/ a standard Net Gear wireless broadband router? Should that work w/o a hitch? Hotel's have that goofy shit setup where you sometimes have to enable the billing for the day. I would assume you can connect once, turn it on for the day, then connect the router and let everyone milk off of it.
When I go to hotels with wireless access, they usually gave me a access code and had a login page when you tried to connect. Sometimes, they will turn it off after a certain point of the day (Midnight at one hotel). As for connection, I usualy had to do it once, then it allowed me to access the internet each time.
Never been to a hotel w/ wireless access. We're assuming it won't be wireless... hence, the question about the wireless router.
OH, I see your question now, you are asking if you can set up a wireless router (Sorry, I got confused for a minute). I never tried it, but I am guessing it wouldn't cause too much of a problem in terms of setting it up with the login code. What type of hotel are you staying at? You may want to call and ask just in case.
YOu mean you want to set up a router inside a hotel room and provide wireless LAN network for a LAN party? You really don't need Internet access thru the hotel. Just configure the router, give it an SSID. Have people look for it and then connect to it. They might not get internet access but atleast you guys see each other and go ahead and ply the lan party w/out internet connection.
No, we need internet access. It's for their Fantasy Football league... you know, where guys fantasize about muscley men hitting each other. Each room has internet access, but they want to do it all in one room. If I'm not mistaken, you can login, pay for the day, then use the router. But yeah, it's kind of a crap shoot. I assume they'd have something setup to spoof that.
Just configure one laptop to act as a router/do the NAT stuff. Login to hotel network with said laptop, have it serve up the others. Don't even bother with a standard router. Not for this. -hl718
But if you're all in the same room you don't need internet access to communicate, right? hehe just kidding. I've used the internet in hotel rooms dozens of times. That being said, I'm not an internet tech wizard either. Most places still have the old system where you plug the cable into your PC and then "log in" to the internet through their web page. Usually that's where you agree to the terms and etc. I'm wondering if that portal type system will allow so many computers to go through. Maybe you can just log in using your computer, and when you're in just take the cable out and put it into the back of your router? They probably don't have a blocking system. I'd be more worried about limited technology. There, that should clear everything up for you. Just let us know how your LAN party went at Starbucks.
The only problem will occur if the system will only support one MAC per port - meaning that once you register with the laptop, you can only connect with the laptop. Therefore setting up an adhoc network on the laptop, may be preferable, even if it does provide worse performance
You'd have to ask the hotel if they'd allow this. Their terms may only allow you to connect one computer.... although if you're actually hiring out a conference room, I guess there shouldn't be too much problem. Other than that, they could easily do it from their own rooms - just chat on MSN or IRC!
