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Originally posted by andrewdodd13
It should work.
Be very careful though, universities (if this is in halls) are usually very strict in saying that you're are explicitly not allowed to do this. And I know at my uni they have pretty good ways of insta-banning your room's account automatically. 
then just connect the university connection to the wan port of the router and register the router's mac address on the university's network - as far as they will then be able to see you have one machine connected and they don't need to know what's going on behind the router (and they won't, unless they do some lame packet inspection but even then they'd need to be specifically looking for the signs of nat)
don't let your flatmates use your connection over wireless unless it's a shared one already, because you'll quickly find it's
you who gets blamed and disconnected if someone else breaches the tos.
you also don't need the "repeating" functionality of dd-wrt; that's something else. all you need is the router itself to have an ip, dhcp enabled (you'll want that), the wireless configured properly and secured, and for it to be connected to the university network in some way or another.
I still recommend dd-wrt anyway, as it's a very nice router firmware alternative providing your device supports it.
