First time on these boards so I hope I have put this in the right place.
In September myself and a few mates at uni are moving into the same flat in
halls of residence.
Each room has internet access however being poor students we were thinking
would it be possible to get a wireless router and go wi-fi thus sharing on
connection costs.
The internet access in the rooms comes in through an RJ45 jack on the
walls, so it isn't ADSL or cable as no modem is required. The halls must
have a really fast connection which is then feed into a router and off to
the various rooms.
My girlfriend currently lives at the same halls so I took my Linksys router
round and hooked it up along with my notebook and Netgear wireless card to
see if I could get it to go. ( I have a wireless setup with
internet/file/printer sharing set up at home so I am not completely
clueless)
I plugged it in the internet and my girlfiends machine in (wired) and
started my notebook up wifi.
Both machines could not navigate to any webpages just got a 404.
My question is do you reckon this can be done and if so how do I go about
setting it up?
I can't get any info from the halls ISP (they are hardly going to encourage
me to give them less money by sharing connections amongst my mates!)
Chances are, they may have a firewall of some sort to prevent you doing
that. Furthermore, they may have a closed LAN that can only be accessed
through their own ethernet connection and their server only allows the hard
wired connection.
You can always try who knows , if you can get in,
it means the door is open, hence legal , students these
days can get away with murder let alone wardriving, if you can't, it means
they don't want you to!
, if you can get in,
it means the door is open, hence legal 
, students these
days can get away with murder let alone wardriving, if you can't, it means
they don't want you to!