Wifi access at a hotel.

I am going to be using my computer at hotels to access the internet and email. I just installed an airport extreme card. [G5 Imac] I have a linksys router here at home and Safari logs on nicely after I configed my computer. When I try to log onto the hotels system will my current configuration suffice to just open Safari and AOL from the dock without doing any setup for the hotels [Holiday inn equipped with wifi] system? Also, is there a wifi hotspot detector for my G5 other than a widget? On my son's Sony [boo,hiss] laptop it detects hotspots and shows their sugnal strength.

Usually, you'll be directed to a web page where you'll have to register and makeup up a password. This registration process may have to be repeated every day or every 4 hours, etc., depending on the hotel. Airport and Internet Connection will give you an indication of signal strength. There are also Dashboard widgets and share and freeware applications availble to do the same thing. I can recommend iStumbler.
http://www.istumbler.net/

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Yesterday my HP Officejet pro 8100 arrived and I try to connect via wifi. I thinked that It need a infrastructure access point to print via wifi.
When I powered on the printer I osserved that It create an access point autonomously with SSID: HP-Setup-7A-Officejet Pro, with IPv4 address server, etc...
I was very happy and I printed a page with my smartphone samsung s4 connected directly with printer access point (not wifi direct but standard wifi).
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P.S. in web server I checked that "access point connectivity" (Punto di accesso wireless connettività in Italian) is checked.
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Hello lucait
To print via WiFi you need to have a wireless router setup. Once you have the wireless router setup correctly you will have a SSID and Wepkey that will enable you to add devices to your network. The network will allow all your devices to communicate not just with each other but with the internet. At the moment your printer was not put in a network so instead of broadcasting on a network it is broadcasting on it's own network called HP-Setup-7A-Officejet Pro which is only good for a short period of time to allow you to setup your wireless. I am going to assume you have a wireless network and you are just needing assistance getting the printer setup on that network.
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I have a 2504 Wireless Controller with multiple radios attached. I currently have a "private" WLAN configured (taking ip from windows server based DHCP of Range 192.1681.0/24 ) and working, but I need to add a Guest/Public WLAN which should take the IP from Other DHCP Configured on Fortigate UTM of range 172.16.0.0/24.
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Find the attached network diagram for the issue.
Is there a SIMPLE way to enabling guest access that doesn't require VLANS (or are VLANS easier than I'm making them)?
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Complete these steps in order to configure the devices for this network setup:
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I want my iPhone to be able to use my broadband internet instead of the slow EDGE internet.
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I did this.
I think I am doing something wrong. I am doing something wrong in this setting *from ethernet to airport*.
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Ethernet, for example), contact your ISP before you turn on Internet sharing. In some
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