Anyone Else Notice Hotel Internet Connections Going Downhill
Feb 25, 2007, 10:04 pm
#17
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I assume it is a combination of more people with laptops, and more bandwidth-heavy uses (streaming video and, to a lesser extent, voip), but has anyone else noticed that hotel internet connections have gotten slower and slower (not to mention more latency/higher ping times)?
I am in a hotel now that I last stayed in exactly one year ago. One of the reasons I returned to this hotel is that it had very fast, consistent and free internet. Now is is so slow that webpages frequently time out and don't load.
I am in a hotel now that I last stayed in exactly one year ago. One of the reasons I returned to this hotel is that it had very fast, consistent and free internet. Now is is so slow that webpages frequently time out and don't load.
Feb 26, 2007, 8:46 pm
#18
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For most purposes, the choice of wired/wireless is not an issue at all for speed. Not too many hotels have broadband connections that have greater bandwidth going out of the hotel than the internal wireless. I suppose there could be some room to room transfers but I would think those are pretty few and far between.