Originally Posted by
wco81
Anyone find that some hotel connections have poor downloads? Even downloading podcasts can be slow.
Seems it would make more sense for people traveling on business, having nice business hotel rooms paid for, then leisure travel.
Besides which you'd want to do something else than watching a lot of TV from back home on a laptop screen.
Or it's not bad tuning into some channels you can't get in the US, like in other languages or CNN International or BBC.
Or just rip some DVDs to the laptop before you leave.
I have used the slingbox in Thailand. It was really hard at most hotels(even the upscale ones) to get a fast enough connection to even make watching the tv worth while.
I know I have a problem when I starting choosing my hotels based on their internet connection. It was during the NBA playoffs and had to watch my team. In some ways it was just easier to torrent the games I wanted to watch to avoid the buffering.
As for watching it on the laptop screen if your laptop has hdmi all you need is a hdmi cable.