Clearly a person making a comment about high speed Internet not being important in hotel rooms has not tried to stream the type of entertainment generally viewed in a hotel room. You view a "movie" that buffers every 10 seconds, it has a fantastic way of killing the moment.. ;)
From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network.
-------- Original message -------- From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> Date: 02/26/2013 6:47 PM (GMT-08:00) To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: 10 Mbit/s problem in your network ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeroen van Aart" <jeroen@mompl.net>
- internet connectivity at a hotel is just another free amenity like after shyave or a hair net, be glad you can at least check your email :-)
It is like hell. It is very often not one paid, but *unreasonably* expensive ($5-10 a *day*). If you don't know this, it's because you either 1) never looked, 2) were always in hotels on group rates where free access was negotiated in the contract or 3) were very very lucky.
Granted if a hotel markets itself as a business hotel in a business area it should include at least half decent internet connectivity, otherwise forget it and be glad you can spend some time away from the hedonistic attractions of "the net".
One word: "Conventions". No, it really *isn't* acceptable for a hotel not to have decent connectivity these days; would you tolerate a hotel where the power went out from 8-midnight every day? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274