WiFi techy help needed please

An ethernet port has to be attached to something on the other end (a hub, switch, network) he can try plugging in with an ethernet cable and see what he can see. It won't do any harm to his laptop (it may breach Uni security protocols but I can't imagine he would be the first tech savvy student to try it)
 
If he has unlimited data on his phone contract & its a decent signal he'd be better using his phone & creating a wifi hotspot.
 
The ethernet port is his to use, it's live and works, but obviously it's limited to one static device only (his Xbox). He still has a year on a US phone contract, he gets free, unlimited data but it's not the fastest unfortunately.
 
The ethernet port is his to use, it's live and works, but obviously it's limited to one static device only (his Xbox). He still has a year on a US phone contract, he gets free, unlimited data but it's not the fastest unfortunately.
You could get away with a cheap ethernet switch - hardwired only or buy a router.
 
Some universities set a single address limit on the Mac addresses over a wired port. I used an access point on my daughters port, and that worked for the first two years, they must have implemented some other tech after that as it stopped working & she got a warning. As it happens it was just after the new year in her final year & she was home in March due to Covid-19 so hardly an inconvenience.

Definitely worth trying the switch or AP though, they are cheap as chips these days.
 
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