Hi Berk, Thanks for that explanation. I would guess one would power up the wireless router plugged into the hotel wired network. Then, one would power up the wireless router. Nothing would happen.
Then one would power up one of the portable PCs. Presumably when that portable PC accesses the NAT, it would send the MAC address of the wireless router to the hotel network.
If this is true, then when one powers up the second PC, the NAT would still send the same MAC address of the NAT wireless router to the hotel network.
Presumably, this would provide exactly what I desire (with the nice addition of a firewall) ... yet I don't have this wireless router thousands of miles away from home.
What I'm trying to do is tie one PC wired to the hotel network and then wirelessly connect the second PC to the first PC to the wired hotel network. According to the google literature, it _should_ work ... but so far I've had almost connections but no real connection.
If anyone has a good reference for how to tie a second PC wirelessly to a first PC wired, that would be wonderful for all of us!
Cindy Fischer