Bubbafish
10-12-2005, 05:50 AM
When I'm in a hotel using the room's hi-speed internet connection, I like to use my laptop in bed (yes, I'm lazy), and therefore I always carry a compact wireless AP with me. I currently have an ASUS WL-330 and it's worked in every hotel I've ever stayed at.
But alas, the WL-330 is starting to flake out a bit on me. Because of my good experience with it, I was planning on just getting another WL-330 as a replacement.
However, I noticed that Linksys has a pretty nice compact wireless router, the WRT54GC, that is advertised to be perfect for travellers like me. It's also only $39 at Amazon, which seems like a good deal.
My question is this: if I stay at a hotel that already uses a router and NAT to provide internet connections to each room, will plugging in a wireless router such as the WRT54GC work? Seems to me that the WRT54GC's built-in NAT will try to share the already-NAT'd connection, and my instincts tell me that doing NAT essentially twice will not work. Is this a correct assumption, and if so, is a wireless router just not the right choice for travelling in unpredictable environments? Perhaps there's a way to configure the wireless router to act as purely an access point, or another way to configure the router in such an environment?
But alas, the WL-330 is starting to flake out a bit on me. Because of my good experience with it, I was planning on just getting another WL-330 as a replacement.
However, I noticed that Linksys has a pretty nice compact wireless router, the WRT54GC, that is advertised to be perfect for travellers like me. It's also only $39 at Amazon, which seems like a good deal.
My question is this: if I stay at a hotel that already uses a router and NAT to provide internet connections to each room, will plugging in a wireless router such as the WRT54GC work? Seems to me that the WRT54GC's built-in NAT will try to share the already-NAT'd connection, and my instincts tell me that doing NAT essentially twice will not work. Is this a correct assumption, and if so, is a wireless router just not the right choice for travelling in unpredictable environments? Perhaps there's a way to configure the wireless router to act as purely an access point, or another way to configure the router in such an environment?