Ethernet point to wireless

[firstborn]

A friend has bought a wireless access point to connect to an ethernet point in her room in the hope of giving her wireless access. At the moment it doesn't work and I'm popping round later to have a looky.

My first though is that the connection of such a device may be prevented by the service supplier - it's in a Uni hall of residence. Is it possible that this may be the case? If so any way around it?

Cheers

 

[firstborn]

If you just want to connect a single device it should be easy as you should be able to configure the access point as a transparent bridge, this will make no changes to the MACs etc. If you have several devices I guess you can clone MACs but a router would be simpler

That was my thinking on the way it should work with a single device i.e. as far as the network was concerned the laptop could still be be connected via a cable. Perhaps...?

Other than that, will try the cloning approach.

 

[firstborn]

Right, I've had a look at this and the AP is a Belkin Universal Range Extender/AP.

I've configured it as an AP, set it's IP to what the laptop picked up when hard wired and it seemed to be working. Laptop pics up the Uni's registration page for new devices, so there is a connection. But it always goes back to that page as if the network it detecting a new device each time.

If that all makes sense anybody with any idea as to a solution. Would a different AP work?

 

[firstborn]

Cheers for that - forgot to add that the UNi also requires you download software that checks you have uptodate AV software etc. before allowing you onto the network - again didn't think would pose a problem if the link provided by the AP was transparent to the network.