Ethernet to Wireless

wingnuttzz · 14 Sep 2009 at 12:50

hi guys

I moved into my Uni halls the other week and the lack of wireless is becoming annoying.

There is an ethernet port in my room in my room and i was looking to connect it to a router or something so i could have wireless

was looking at a Netgear WNDR3300, seems powerful and cheap, but i dunno if i can use an ethernet as the connection source if that makes sense

does anybody know of a good product to do what i am looking for?

Thanks
Grant

5abr3 · 14 Sep 2009 at 12:58

I would start by checking the terms and conditions for doing that with your halls internet provider (that being the campus Computing Services at a guess).

At Loughborough their site says they will allow you to use a router but its at your own risk and they wont provide support for it, they dont even give away information on what settings you would need to use or anything.

FatalSaviour · 14 Sep 2009 at 13:00

Any cable (wireless) router should be able to do what I think you're wanting.
However, this breaches many campus' ToS (as you're effectively compromising their physical network security), so you may want to look into this first...

Qu3 · 14 Sep 2009 at 13:42

What uni are at? Is the ethernet port bound to your MAC address?

Hairybudda · 14 Sep 2009 at 14:21

I doubt they'll allow you to do that, why not just get a nice long cable?

wingnuttzz · 14 Sep 2009 at 16:27

I'm at Heriot Watt uni in Edinburgh.

Will check with the halls warden when i go to see him about something else.

I've got a long cable and its fine if i'm in room (even if it is annoying, its not really a laptop when u have to plug it in is it), but its more of being able to sit in the kitchen and use the internet as there is no ethernet port in the kitchen