YES, but if Skip is attempting to access (port 80 HTTP) an IP address
LOCAL TO HIS ONBOARD LAN, *HOW* is the router at the hotspot
intercepting it? It shouldn't have any interest in any local addresses
on the LAN side of Skip's bridge. You obviously have a better than
obvious grasp of what's going on so can you provide an explanation or
suggest the next troubleshooting step Skip should try?

Skip's networking has been fraught with screw ups, largely borne of his own
failure to actually pay attention to, and use, the advice a number of
networking experts have offered. Here an in alt.internet.wireless.

My advice then, and now, continues to be "get the right gear". And stop
wasting his and everyone else's time.