Originally Posted by
nacho
I know CY Berlin is doing something like that. They offered free wired internet to everyone which I read from TA people said it's hopeless. They offer Gold/Plat wireless internet for free (I think it costs something like 9,90 EUR per day if you are not elite - sept 2011's price), which is pretty fast.
That's not actually the example I was giving.
The possible scenario:
Guest A just doing normal email not using much bandwidth
Guest B streaming movies, etc, eating up a lot of bandwidth
Guest B gets a pop-up saying you've maxed out the bandwidth - if you want to continue using this amount, it will cost XX. If you don't want to pay XX, we'll drop you back to type of bandwidth Guest A has.
Anyway, something like that. It's been almost 2 years since I had the conversation w/ the GM of the property so I'm a bit fuzzy on the detailed logistics, and I don't know that it was ever implemented. I do know they were having to upgrade their servers because when a convention was in town they had a full hotel of biz folk all using i-net & things slowing down.
Cheers.