Is there a PORTABLE wireless router that I could travel with to convert hotel LAN lines into wireless signals for my iPad?

I travel regularly to Asia and I have been trying to compile everything I need into my iPad. Unfortunately, most of my hotels do not have wireless in the rooms just an LAN line. Does anyone know of a router (as small as possible) that I can plug an LAN line into that will convert it to a wireless signal I can access with the iPad. What I don’t want is to have to plug the router into a computer and program it forevery different LAN line I encounter. Thoughts???

As the others have said, Airport Express is one option. The catch as Allan said is that the configuration utility doesn't run on the iPad. It is rumored that iOS5 may have the utlity, but that doesn't help you now. If you can wait, then the Airport Express would arguably be the best for the iPad.
If you can't wait, you could get the D-Link DAP-1350. You configure it through a webpage, similar to how you would other home routers.
http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=DAP-1350
I use the older DWL-G730AP 802.11g version and it's been very good to me for use by my Macbook Pro and iPad1.

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Please read this :
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Re: Anyone still having IOS 6 wifi issues?
created by mpa9366 in Using iPad - View the full discussion
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The magazine I was reading identified wifi problems within hours of the ios 6 release and have been analysing since then with almost daily updates - the story seems to be:
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I recently bought a new Imac. Do I have to set up a wireless router or can my other devices connect thru the Wifi built into the Imac??

jason1074 wrote:
I recently bought a new Imac. Do I have to set up a wireless router or can my other devices connect thru the Wifi built into the Imac??
For the Internet, you should set up a router on your modem, this router will route the packets to any device on the local area network.
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Mac Security on a wireless router that includes Windows PCs

Just yesterday I took the plunge and purchased my first Mac---a MacBook Pro 2.4GHX with 4G of Ram. I am 62 years old and up until now have been using PCs my whole life (or that part of my life since personal computers became available). I have not as yet set up the MacBook but before I do I have one question (maybe many more in the future). I did not plan on installing any security software on my MacBook because friends and Apple Store employees told me it was not necessary and would only hog resources, etc. Good enough. However, I will be using the MacBook exlusively at home. My family and I have two Windows PCs that are connected to our ISP via a wireless router and I will be setting up the MacBook Web Access through the wireless router as well. My question is, although I am aware there has never been a successful reported Mac exploit in the wild would my MacBook be at risk if a virus or spyware or bot were to infect one of the PC's on our home network? Also, since the router employs a hardware firewall do I need to turn on the Mac firewall when I set up my MacBook. Since I am a brand new user and also not exactly a techie I hope someone can answer these questions. Thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions.

I answered the questions that were asked. "What will be, will be"
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If and when a Mac virus does appear it will be headline news and you can download the AV software then. If you feel you have to run an AV program I'd suggest ClamXav a mac friendly freeware app that is very stable with OS X. It will check for known virus signatures at any rate.
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I have a Linksys WRT54G wireless router that has a MAC address

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