On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Simon Lockhart wrote:
One thing which I would find useful is connectivity which extends into the hotel rooms themselves. Wireless would be nice, but most hotels don't cope with this very well. One conference I went to (I can't remember if it was NANOG or USENIX) provided dial-in on a hotel extension, which was useful!
The hotel of the future, giving you 10/100 switched ethernet to the room (a hub at extra charge), and the hotel then gets an uplink to X NSP, based on number of rooms and average usage. Along with that comes online gaming among hotel guests (you can have a PC installed - laptop for the suites - for extra charge), with online games installed, where hotel guests connect to a hotel gaming server (quake server for example), and play among themselves. Of course, downstairs in the game rooms, there will be also computers who can be used for the el-cheapo guests, if they can't afford one in the room, in order to play (price/time of usage). .... --Ariel
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