Dorm internet and wifi

MJ

So I'm back on campus and I did some interior design but my desk ended up being across the room from my ethernet port and my cable isn't long enough.
I don't wanna run 50 feet of cable around the walls, and I also have a wii and such I'd like to use online occasionally as well, but still, there's one ethernet cable.
So my question is would looking into an airport express or something like that work for my school internet?
I have a macbook.

And my school's network is the type that requires me to:
1. Connect computer
2. Open browser, which directs you to a Resident internet page, where we enter our school internet id
3. Internet Access until you turn off or sleep computer.

Is anyone else's campus network similar to this and you have set up wifi?

Improvolone

My campus did not allow wifi, so I would check on that if I were you.

ASimPerson

Yeah, it was against the rules at my school to run your own wireless router.

It would've been a lot easier, though, since you only had to activate the "port" the machine was plugged into and then it worked for the rest of the year.

Lewisham

I can't think of any reason why that style of authentication won't work behind a NAT (they'll be taking note of your IP and MAC address when you authenticate, but the NAT will present a single one to the network), but take note that if you are allowed to run a wireless network:

a) You'd better secure it with WPA
b) Act like it will get broken, because likelihood is, someone is going to be running a program to break into your network for fun.

MJ

Well I went and bought a longer ethernet cable to just have ethernet for my computer, but my BF bought me an airport express anyway. Since, I've seen a few networks up already and I did last year, I decided to set it up to see.
All I did was plug it in, turn on wifi, and find the airport, go to airport utility, and go through the setup. It went through the process of setting up a WPA security which I hear is better than WEP which I used at home. Everything works fine and it's locked. to the outside world. One thing I did have to change was I had to set it up in Bridge mode, but that was just selecting another radio button.

Edit: This is a nice little gadget, and for the record, wireless isn't allowed here but I don't think people care, since as of counting right now, there are 4. I'll just try my luck of not being caught.

Edit edit: Also because of the way the internet works, the Wii is still offline, but it's ok, there's plenty of RL people to meet.