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High speed internet @ hotels.


jtraveler
By jtraveler,
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Hello,

I have a question to people who use high speed internet connection at the

hotels they visit and are knowledgable about computers/networking.

Can you say please, whether the internet provided at hotels (assuming you bring

your own laptop) uses NAT or firewall always/often/sometimes/rarely/never ?

Or can you get an internet wan address so it is possible to do at a hotel all that

is possible with a home connection ?

Is the connection being wired or wireless has any baring in this at the HOTELS ?

(like wired connection will most often receive an internet wan address while wireless

will not - get a lan address via the NAT).

Thanks.

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My experience has been:

  • No difference between wired and wireless.
  • Most hotels give a NAT address (192.168.xxx.xxx etc.)
  • Very few hotels give you a choice (in the login screen) between firewall and no firewell (Hilton Garden Inn; Larkspur Landing in South San Francisco). However the firewall has the standard ports enabled, so you can pretty much use any widely-used application.
  • Just once have I stayed at a hotel (Doubletree - Chesterfield Missouri) where I couldn't connect to my company's VPN gateway. I called the support number of the hotel's ISP and they switched my room from a private IP to a public IP.

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