Hotel Wifi is Still Pretty Dodgy
Susan Stellin wrote a piece for the New York Times about the sorry state of wireless internet access in hotel rooms:
Will Allen III, an organizational development consultant who travels most weeks, attributes growing connectivity problems to the shift to wireless access, estimating that he has trouble with Wi-Fi service in hotels about 50 percent of the time, in contrast to 5 percent of the time with a wired connection.
“Wireless is just not reliable yet, and hotels are just catching up to the fact that they’ve got to be on top of this,” he said, noting that he has turned down free upgrades to a room with Wi-Fi in favor of a wired connection in a lesser room. And if he is planning a long-term stay, he and his colleagues will test a hotel’s Internet service in advance.
Amen. For most hotel rooms I currently prefer a long cable and wireful access compared to unreliable wireless access. The last thing I want to do when I check into a hotel room is troubleshoot my internet connection.
Here’s an interesting statistic from later in the article: “Up to 35 percent of guests use the Internet at Hilton’s full-service hotels, with peaks occurring midweek from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.” I’m shocked that it’s not higher than that.
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