On Sat, 9 Feb 2013, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
When you are staying at a 3* hotel, should you have no expectations that you'll be getting at least a 3Mbps pipe and at least an under 100ms average latency, and won't be getting a balancer that would be breaking up your ssh sessions?
Not really. Best way to improve this would probably be to get the hotel booking sites to include a separate rating for the internet connectivity. Up until then, getting Internet connectivity into a hotel is either just cost (in case they offer it for free) or probably a badly performing profit center (because as soon as they try to charge their outrageous prices I imagine take up is abysmal). If a good performing hotel actually got better rating out of having bad connectivity, and a badly performing hotel got worse rating at rating sites, then I'd imagine that more emphasis would be put on this. *But* it also requires a standard test that people can run to understand if things are bad or good. For instance, my ISP guarantees to provide 50-100 megabit/s down and 7-10 up on my 100/10 home connection to a speed test site located on neutral ground here in Sweden. So if the hotels could market themselves with some kind of lowest speed guarantee according to some standard, I believe things would improve. Especially if hotels.com (and others) had a special search item for this, where you could do a search and it would only show results for hotels that guaranteed a certain speed. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se