10 Mbit/s problem in your network

Sun Feb 10 06:59:09 UTC 2013

On Sat, 9 Feb 2013, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:

> When you are staying at a 3* hotel, should you have no expectations that 
> you'll be getting at least a 3Mbps pipe and at least an under 100ms 
> average latency, and won't be getting a balancer that would be breaking 
> up your ssh sessions?

Not really. Best way to improve this would probably be to get the hotel 
booking sites to include a separate rating for the internet connectivity.

Up until then, getting Internet connectivity into a hotel is either just 
cost (in case they offer it for free) or probably a badly performing 
profit center (because as soon as they try to charge their outrageous 
prices I imagine take up is abysmal).

If a good performing hotel actually got better rating out of having bad 
connectivity, and a badly performing hotel got worse rating at rating 
sites, then I'd imagine that more emphasis would be put on this.

*But* it also requires a standard test that people can run to understand 
if things are bad or good. For instance, my ISP guarantees to provide 
50-100 megabit/s down and 7-10 up on my 100/10 home connection to a speed 
test site located on neutral ground here in Sweden.

So if the hotels could market themselves with some kind of lowest speed 
guarantee according to some standard, I believe things would improve. 
Especially if hotels.com (and others) had a special search item for this, 
where you could do a search and it would only show results for hotels that 
guaranteed a certain speed.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se