I may give it a shot...
Alan,
Good, let me know how it works out. (If I'd posted here more than once or twice in the last two years I'd've said let us know, but I don't feel among the in crowd at the moment, but, ok, let us know <g>.)
To get everything up and running in your new house, you're going to need a router of some kind no matter how you go about it. The only alternative is to dedicate one PC to one broadband connection. Yeah, PCs with Win-98 or Win-2k up can act as routers, sort of, but don't. The external alternatives are better and cheaper and simpler and more controllable and etc.
You're also going to need a router in your transitional hotel, as several folks have mentioned here in the last few weeks.
I don't see what the problem with a router would be in the hotel. The router has its own MAC ID, which is all the hotel needs. Don't give 'em your PC NIC MAC ID, give 'em the router's. It's printed on the label.
Besides, every router I've ever looked at allows you to specify a MAC ID for it to present to the wide area network (WAN), just in case you need to present a specific id for billing purposes. This is made to order for your situation, in case you've signed on with one MACID and need to switch for some reason. Such as, you are already in the hotel but just bought a new router and don't want to screw around with billing.
Having spent weeks at a time in hotels (in my decadent past), I'd say you never want to screw around with billing if you can avoid it. You always end up as the screwee, somehow.
Incidentally, if you decide on the Nexland, it should also do the job in your hotel. No need to buy something else for the short-term job.
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