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Jul 16, 2010 | 12:12 am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bdraco

If they do not have a QoS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_service... eg traffic shaping) solution installed they are generally at the mercy of one user sucking up all the bandwidth.

As (I think) I posted a while back in this thread, pretty much every Starwood hotel has a subscriber management system that rate limits each Internet session. It is possible that the administrator of that system ups or lowers that limit from time to time.