10 Mbit/s problem in your network

Wed Feb 27 03:58:01 UTC 2013

Clearly a person making a comment about high speed Internet not being important in hotel rooms has not tried to stream the type of entertainment generally viewed in a hotel room. You view a "movie" that buffers every 10 seconds, it has a fantastic way of killing the moment.. ;)

>From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network.

-------- Original message --------
From: Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com>
Date: 02/26/2013 6:47 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: 10 Mbit/s problem in your network

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeroen van Aart" <jeroen at mompl.net>

> - internet connectivity at a hotel is just another free amenity like
> after shyave or a hair net, be glad you can at least check your email
> :-)

It is like hell.  It is very often not one paid, but *unreasonably*
expensive ($5-10 a *day*).  If you don't know this, it's because you
either 1) never looked, 2) were always in hotels on group rates where
free access was negotiated in the contract or 3) were very very lucky.

> Granted if a hotel markets itself as a business hotel in a business area
> it should include at least half decent internet connectivity, otherwise
> forget it and be glad you can spend some time away from the hedonistic
> attractions of "the net".

One word: "Conventions".

No, it really *isn't* acceptable for a hotel not to have decent
connectivity these days; would you tolerate a hotel where the power went
out from 8-midnight every day?

Cheers,
-- jra
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