Wired to Wireless in a dorm, please help a damsel in distress!

Get a "cable router" and set up your own wifi network, usually about €40.

Or if you have a pc plugged into the LAN cable you should be able to set this up as a wifi router too.

If its banned you shouldn't be doing it

But to answer your question a "cable - router" is a router which is used to share an internet connection which generally comes in over a ethernet LAN cable, such as the connection from the likes of a UPC cable modem. You do not want a router with an ADSL modem, as this is design to work off a telephone line not an ethernet connection.

Something like this would do the trick:-
http://www.komplett.ie/Komplett/product/routers/20042236/d_link_wireless_n_router_dir_615/details.aspx

Yes if you want you can hide a wireless network so it not broadcasting it SSID, so only you should be able to find it. No one else will know its there.


Your other option is to get a small netbook running the likes of windows XP. Plug it into the Ethernet and bridge the Ethernet and wireless connections to make your own mini wifi network.
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/wxpbrdge.html

dub45 wrote: »

Somebody more expert than me might like to comment on the danger in this situation of adding "double" routing? If the op adds a wireless cable router to a situation where there probably is a router already in place will this not cause problems? Might a simple wireless point not be enough?

No won't cause a problem. You can have multiple level's of NAT's cascaded and they actually work fine. Have done it many a time.