Re: Share a hotel wireless internet connection?

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From: Tim Slattery (Slattery_T_at_bls.gov)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:11:41 -0400

NobodyMan <none@none.net> wrote:

>You are coming to a Microsoft sponsored newsgroup and asking how to
>rip off your hotel? They provide a service for $10/day to you - they
>have a right to that same fee for all those other users you are trying
>to backdoor through your connection.

Horseradish! Putting a router on this kind of connection is no more
wrong than putting a router on your cable modem at home. Indeed, there
are products in the computer store that are designed exactly for
sharing hotel connections. 

-- 
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
Slattery_T@bls.gov

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