Travel Technology - Wireless connection in Hotel rooms

I stay in a hotel in Overland Park, KS where I have to pay 9.95 per conenction, is there a good wireless provider where I can go monthly and can be accessed in hotel rooms.

Please advise.

How many nights do you per stay? How many stays per month and per year? If you pay for more than 5 nights a stay then you should get one of those broadband cards. I believe they run around 50 bucks a month.

I looked and Sprint is available in Overland Park KS. Although the price is more like $59.

How many nights do you per stay? How many stays per month and per year? If you pay for more than 5 nights a stay then you should get one of those broadband cards. I believe they run around 50 bucks a month.

I looked and Sprint is available in Overland Park KS. Although the price is more like $59.

Overland Park KS is Sprint Central. They have a lot of corporate presence there and believe it or not they are often the towers which have the latest upgrades. When I used to live in the US I had Sprint for my wireless data services back in the old 1RXTT wireless days. A number of People including myself hacked our Sprint 6600s to go to EVDO before it was officially released. People were able to get onto EVDO in Overland Park before Chicago, NYC, and LAX.

Sprint is also significantly more relaxed about data usage than Verizon. Read this forum and dslreports for people who have gotten in trouble for using too much data on Verizon's "unlimited plan." We have friends who are snow birds and relatively who have a Sprint datacard and a 3g router and simply take that with them between Chicago and Arizona and don't bother with a dsl connection at home.

How many nights do you per stay? How many stays per month and per year? If you pay for more than 5 nights a stay then you should get one of those broadband cards. I believe they run around 50 bucks a month.

I looked and Sprint is available in Overland Park KS. Although the price is more like $59.

I used to pay the hotel's internet charges until I started using a wireless broadband card for my laptop. Now with 3G technology it works great and most of the times better/faster than the hotel's connection.

If you travel frequently, sign up for a $22 unlimited monthly wi-fi pass at www.Boingo.com. They have partnerships with all main airports (400 to 500 or so) and thousands of hotels - I think they have around 60,000 hotspots or so. There is no term commitment and no need to buy an EVDO card - I think the Sprint term is for two years.

If you travel frequently, sign up for a $22 unlimited monthly wi-fi pass at www.Boingo.com. They have partnerships with all main airports (400 to 500 or so) and thousands of hotels - I think they have around 60,000 hotspots or so. There is no term commitment and no need to buy an EVDO card - I think the Sprint term is for two years.

I used this service last year through Skype at a cheaper rate. Had some trouble in Europe (not many hot spots etc) and canceled the service.

I have a Sprint wireless broadband card and it is in fact slower than the wireless (802.11x) service. In some hotel rooms or other locations you might just not have a decent signal for the card. YMMV, especially if you need bandwidth-intensive applications. I have been in a few situations where I've shelled out the $10 per night in a hotel for a (slightly faster) connection, but then again since I was reimbursed for it by my firm/client perhaps the cost-benefit analysis is skewed.

If you travel frequently, sign up for a $22 unlimited monthly wi-fi pass at www.Boingo.com. They have partnerships with all main airports (400 to 500 or so) and thousands of hotels - I think they have around 60,000 hotspots or so. There is no term commitment and no need to buy an EVDO card - I think the Sprint term is for two years.
Many non-US Boingo sites charge a premium. We ditched them before our last international trip because it was more cost effective to use short term plans with T-mobile and other vendors.

I used this service last year through Skype at a cheaper rate. Had some trouble in Europe (not many hot spots etc) and canceled the service.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that Skype offered two packages: (a) Skype only; and, (b) full broadband access. When I looked Plan B was not significantly different in price than Boingo. When I looked, the pricing for Skype was in Euros and Boingo was in dollars. This made created a horse race situation about who was cheaper on a given day.

Stu