2 pcs one wifi login hotel

September 2, 2006 6:29 AM

Living in in a serviced apartment in sweaty HCMC. Broadband is whopping USD66 per month. I need to help to get 2 PCs on one login.

I am living in a serviced apartment in Vietnam. The broadband is USD66pcm for one login. They give you a card with a login name and the password you scratch off to reveal. I need to get two PCs on this one login. The setup is as follows: Modem in the wall out of which you connect a cat 5 cable to the PC. When you open explorer it goes to a login page where you enter the details off the card. Have plugged the cat 5 into a wireless access point and can now access the internet wirelessly with one laptop. When I open another laptop it goes to the login page and gives me "login already in use".
I have two laptops, one with wifi built in and one with a wifi card. In addition I have one spare USB wifi doggle, the access point , the provided vietnamese modem and a few bits of cat 5 cable. Help. In an ideal world I would like two laptops to connect wirelessly but would be excited with just one wired and one wireless.

posted by priorpark17 to computers & internet (4 comments total)

So this is going to sound like fun!

I hope one of the laptops is running Windows XP. If it is, setup the WIFI dongle on that laptop, and create an 'ADHOC' network. With the onboard wireless connect to the cable modem.

Goto the control panel, networking, and find your wireless connection that is connected to the hotel network, goto properties, advanced tab, and select "allow other computers to connect through this connection" and select the other wireless card as your "home networking connection".

Make sense? Need mroe details?
posted by SirStan at 6:57 AM on September 2, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

SirStan's approach works as long as you're willing to always leave the host laptop on. There's a trick you can do to clone the MAC address of the first laptop but then you wouldn't be able to use the laptops simultaneously.
posted by onalark at 7:44 AM on September 2, 2006

If you don't want to leave the host machine on 24/7 then you can pick up a router than allows for MAC cloning and (I'm guessing) PPPoE login. In fact, most consumer-level routers do both those things, but I can say that the Linksys WRT54G definitely does. You won't even need your WAP with a wireless-enabled router.
posted by Dipsomaniac at 8:37 AM on September 2, 2006

If you don't want to leave the host machine on 24/7 then you can pick up a router than allows for MAC cloning and (I'm guessing) PPPoE login.posted by Dipsomaniac at 2:37 AM AEST on September 3

I'm curious, can you get a router to be able to log into those web-based forms to gain access?
posted by qwip at 3:42 PM on September 2, 2006