On 26 February 2013 20:03, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
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From: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
[ quoting me ]
Ironically, I suspect that it's for the same reason that East Germany has right up to the minute telephony services these days, while West German is still sucking hind tit:
The big properties are, over all, likely to skew somewhat older in building construction, and because of that, they're not built/wired for the internal transport; too much rebar in the walls blocking wifi and stuff like that.
A comment off list pointed out to me that sometimes, it's the reverse:
The property jumped on-board in the late nineties, putting in a system worthy of the next decade...
and has never updated it, cause it's "good enough".
Brand new Hyatt Place in NorCal, less than 2 years old, Fast Ethernet in every room: This is a smokeping of their SureWest (ADSL or FFTH) connection, all within NorCal, ~20ms latency on a good millisecond: http://www.dslreports.com/r3/smokeping.cgi?target=network.9b37669cada3f00d34... (half-second latency is common, above 1s latency is not unheard of) This is a smokeping of their AT&T (T1?), which seems to be only marginally better, but on a good millisecond, it's only 10ms: http://www.dslreports.com/r3/smokeping.cgi?target=network.bb79d93501996d8896... Time on the graph is in dslr timezone (ET), not in hotel's time (PT), but the trends are pretty obvious. Now. Good luck typing and then editing that that rm -rf in your ssh! Or picking up that conference call through a VPN. C.