So, in my college dorm, theres wifi for the students as well as a single ethernet jack. Problem is, this ethernet jack is MAC filtered, and can only allow one mac address to use it at a time. This can however be switched back and forth from the school's website, but can sometimes take up to a half hour to update. I have my desktop using it right now, but want to bring up my PS4 when I go back, but will not be able to easily access the internet. It is impossible to connect it to the wifi with a game console (from my own experiences and what the school has told me), since a wifi profile & login information is required, which the PS4 simply can't do. Plus, its unreliable. So I'd like to run it through the ethernet jack with my PC.
My only ideas so far have been to buy a single port lan card for my computer so I can run an ethernet cable out to the PS4, effectively bridging the connection through software in Windows. However, I'm worried that this will still cause an issue with the mac address filter. Would connections coming from my PS4 through my PC to the jack appear only from my PC (problem solved)? Or as a separate mac address?
Another idea was to get a router, which can be set up through the jack, but seems like an unnecessary amount of hassle.
Any ideas? Thanks guys. Mark