Originally Posted by Traveller
I have stayed in FI in Alabama, California, Minnesota, Mississippi and South Carolina about 12 weeks so far this year and these properties advertise wireless high speed but have anything but high speed.
I'm in SC this week and the first room I was in had a very poor connection and I moved to a different room (for another reason) with no wireless connection, but at least I have a RJ45 cable in this room.
Last week I was in MN and was on the FI wireless network trying to make a reservation for this week at another FI and the website just hung. I ended up calling on the phone.
I can never access the Delta website from FI. Flyertalk is often too slow to bother with.
Would CY have a better wireless set up? If not, I'll change chains simply over this matter.
ps. AIM simply isn't available. Why do they block it?
And I just killed a giant bug in my room, maybe it's time to upgrade out of Fairfield Inn.
I know that this is not the way you want to solve your "no wireless signal" problems but it is a solution that might save you some frustration in the future.
http://www.edigitalwireless.com/detail.aspx?ID=2
http://www.engeniustelephones.com/Ca...WAVC8&PID=5622
Engenious has a 200mw PCMCIA wireless card that has over twice the amount of power as other wireless cards. The cards you pick up at Best Buy (Linksys/D-Link/Netgear) have under 100mw of output power.
The next time you get put in a room with weak signal or even no signal, just fire this baby up and you'll probably pick up the signal from the hotel next door (which could be on a faster circuit). I've sat in many a hotel with the Internet down mooching signal from the hotel next door.
This won't solve your speed issues. Most of the FFI/Hampton/Choice type hotels only have a business DSL circuit in them and when you get 10 or 20 users on the circuit it slows to a crawl. All you can do is pray that your neighbors aren't downloading a ton of MP3's.