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Is there a piece of hardware I can make my laptop like a wireless router as my flat next year cant get WiFi?
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No, not that I know of.

Why can't it get WiFi?
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the building I move into next year is private student housing and because they dont a WiFi system that reaches all of the flats they only do wired internet but I was wondering if there is something I can buy that allows me to use my laptop as a wireless router basically
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If they have wired connections, get a splitter and get a WiFi extender.

Works wonders in my house, runs off a single Ethernet cable.
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FR0NTLinealpaca wrote the building I move into next year is private student housing and because they dont a WiFi system that reaches all of the flats they only do wired internet but I was wondering if there is something I can buy that allows me to use my laptop as a wireless router basically

Just buy a wireless router, you can get them for pretty cheap
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no such thing as making a laptop work and if they use wired get a spliter and wifi extender
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If you're connected through Ethernet, try this out.

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It pretty much lets your laptop act as a virtual wireless hotspot and share it's internet with devices connected to it. I used to use a lot whenever my iPod's MAC address got blacklisted on networks.

Though it does cost money, I'm sure you can get it for free if you look around... ;)

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Thanks for the answers guys, the people who own the building and control the internet and such are a bit crap and have said that if you plug in a wireless router they will cut you off. so hopefully one of the other solutions will work.

Once again, thanks
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