Use of express in hotels?

When a hotel gives you an Ethernet Jack is it a no brainer to plug wireless into that?
I live in a high rise that assigns a static private ip address and it works fine in the configuration so is a hotel setup likely to be similar?

Tesserax is correct about configuring the Express as a bridge if you are going to use it at a hotel.
The reason is that most hotels require you to open your browser and click the "agree" buttons, etc in order to log on. But, if you try to log on with your computer, unplug it and then plug in the Express, the hotel router sees another device and the connection will not be allowed.
Configured as a bridge, you can plug the Express into the wall jack using an ethernet cable and log on with your computer. This assumes that the Express is set to "create a wireless network."
This setup works fine in most hotels if the connection speed is decent. But, hotels are moving strongly to wireless, so you may not find many still using the ethernet jacks.

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