Hi All. I just got an iPad and I have a related question... hoping someone has an answer for me...

I spend a lot of time in Hotels, and though most have internet in the rooms, not all have wireless, so my iPad is rendered kind of useless in that situation.

I tried connecting my laptop to the internet via the wired connection, and I shared it out. I then created a new Wireless Peer-to-Peer network I called "PatsHotSpot", and protected it with WEP.

I was able to connect to that hotspot from my iPad, add the WEP password, and it all looked good, except that when I tried to access the internet it keeps telling me there is no internet connection...

I seemed to have read something about iPads not working with shared internet connections. Is anyone out there able to get this exact situation replicated and working? If so, I'd love to know what I'm missing.

Thank-you

In most hotels you have to pay for wifi/internet... if it doesn't have wifi try taking your own wifi router and see if that works (haven't tried)

I hope this is what you were hoping for, if I've got the wrong meaning please correct me and I will try answering from the new info.
~Coalas