They can still have their desktop connected to the router, any good router has ethernet connections where they can plug their desk top into as well as the wireless option.
My desktop upstairs is connected with a cable, while I am at present lying on the couch using the wireless option on my laptop.
As for a roaming service, I aint too sure of that one mate, anytime I had cause to use my laptop before in was in a hotel a year or so ago and it wasn't by a wireless connection.