I have had pretty good success simply using a Asus RT-N16 or a Linksys WRT54GL router running Tomato open source firmware. You can either wireless client or wireless bridge to the hotel and create a second wireless and/or wired network for yourself. Since Tomato has openVPN already built-in, it tunnels whatever clients are attached to router. Yes there may be some wireless performance to take into consideration but in my experience when I had slow performance at the hotel, it was not because of my router. Since Tomato is open source, you can anticipate continued development.
Paul On Jul 29, 2015, at 8:59 PM, Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > I travel a lot and today hotels only provide WLAN access. Ethernet ports in > hotel rooms are relics of the past. > > I solved this problem by using a Mac to connect to the Hotel WLAN and then > select "Share my Intenet (WLAN) connection to Ethernet" in the "Sharing" > control panel. When I then connect the ALIX WAN interface to my Mac using a > cable, things again work nicely, but I effectively block a Mac as router that > I would rather carry around. > > My thought was "throw a second ALIX box at the problem and make that one > connect as client to the hotel's WLAN", then plug the two ALIX's together > with a short cable. _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
