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Jul/11
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How to connect a laptop to an ethernet access point?

I recently stayed at a hotel that had free Internet access on a couple of PCs but no wifi. I wanted to use my own laptop, so after asking the hotel staff (who had no technical knowledge, nor cared) I unplugged the network connector of one of the hotel PCs and plugged in my laptop in its place. But the icon got stuck on "retrieving IP address" and I wasn't able to connect that way (I ended up using a wifi hotspot outside).
Exactly the same think happened again at another hotel a few days later.

And yet, I have stayed in other hotels where they have internet access points in the rooms. I just connect the PC and it works.

The first hotels didn't seem the kind to implement fancy security features - they were in a third world country and the computers were freely available for the guests.
So what is hapenning here?
It was in fact a netbook running on Linux, not Windows. But I've had similar experiences in the past with laptops running win xp.

I suspect that this is related to the MAC address (and nothing to do with your version of Windows). The hotel's network administrator simply validated the MAC addresses for the PCs that are connected to the network. Your laptop wasn't connected and so didn't get its address validated.

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