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Every hotel I check into in New Zealand has this pay by the minute system where you go to the desk, get a slip with a code and enter it into your browser to start the billing.

I can manage this on my laptop but my blackberry won't work... I can connect to the hotel routers SSID but when I try to open a browser on the 8320 in order to enter the code, it won't work!

I even brought a DLink travel router with me assuming that I'd check into my hotel, plug the single cable from my router into the wall (and since it clones the MAC address from my laptop) get a little network set up. I did this at the hotels in Thailand where I had a cabled connection but no luck here in NZ... virtually no one has a cabled connection and 99% of the hotels don't know what I'm talking about.

Can anyone here help? Do you know of some way to get the blackberry 8320 wifi curve to log into these types of networks so I can get a UMA connection set up?

Or any idea on how to get my Dlink travel router to (a) catch the wifi signal and B split it so as to deliver an IP address to my bblackberry all without connecting via a cable?

My Dlink has a 3 way switch -- router, Access point and one other... I forget what it is... I don't have it with me at the moment.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. If I can find an internet cafe that only has the WEP security and not this funky pay by the minute thing I have no problem because all I have to do is enter the WEP key.

Thanks
Jim