Originally Posted by
KNRG
Many hotels have - seriously - the same wireless adapter you'd have at home. They're really not meant to serve many people at once or to cover large areas or multiple rooms.
I recently found this out at a small hotel in Thailand. After using the wifi for a few days, one day there was no network available at all and after waiting a day I notified the front desk. The clerk went over to the home-use router sitting a few feet away, unplugged the power for a few seconds, then reconnected. Network back! I must have been the only guest using a laptop at the time or it might have gone unnoticed for weeks. (It was low season.) My room wasn't all that far from the front desk and even then the best connection kept switching between low and no signal, so the suggestion to do a test run in the lobby is a good one.