Nightfall
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| It is a benefit I look for in a hotel!
I don't travel a lot, but when I do I want broadband access at the hotel I stay at. In addition to providing support for the company I work for, I like it for entertainment purposes. I wouldn't have to say my life revolves around the internet and email, but I have a lot of important things that are on the internet. It is important to me.
I like seeing more and more hotels supply broadband. Most of the hotels that provide this service also set it up pretty intelligently by blocking file sharing ports and leaving gaming ports open for instance. It really depends on the hotel though. I have encountered a hotel that ran the internet access through a linksys router with the default admin password in place. I told the hotel management about this before I left. 
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Cyber2lz
join:2001-11-15
Odessa, FL
| I travel quite a bit and believe me the "Broadband" at the Hyatts and Marriotts are all over the map. Courtyards seem to have the best and it's free. Hyatts and regular Marriotts are 9.95 for 24 hours and they aren't so "broad".
YMMV,
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Nightfall
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Maybe there should be a review for the "quality" of broadband at hotels. I have encountered better broadband at some of the smaller independent hotels than I have at the bigger national chains.
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NGOwner
join:2000-11-21
Leawood, KS
| Hilton Garden Inn.
All properties broadband enabled, it's complimentary, and it's a Hilton to boot!!
The one in Omaha, NE, is real nice, BTW.
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Engineer88
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join:2000-12-01
Smithtown, NY
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I agree. I've been happy with Hampton Inn, Hilton Garden Inn, and Marriot Courtyard. Wyndham/Summerfield Suites is free too (with a free 'by request' membership) and also works well.
The larger, more luxurious hotels seem to have the worst connections, and charge the most for them. Then again, these hotels don't have free breakfasts or free exercise rooms either.
Perhaps all these hotels use the same backbone size - one T1 usually - whether they have 50 rooms or 1500. Fortunatley, (as in Dvorak's experience) there is rarely any trouble getting credit for bad connections. |
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achuchma
join:2001-04-11
Tampa, FL
| reply to Cyber2lz
said by Cyber2lz  :
I travel quite a bit and believe me the "Broadband" at the Hyatts and Marriotts are all over the map. Courtyards seem to have the best and it's free. Hyatts and regular Marriotts are 9.95 for 24 hours and they aren't so "broad".
I stayed at the Hyatt in Downtown Chicago back in May and their Broadband service was free, not to mention fast.
I was also pleased with the broadband service at a Holiday Inn that I stayed at in Richardson, TX.
If I am traveling for business, I *always* pick a hotel with broadband. Considering my job requires attaching 3 - 6MB files to emails for status updates, there is no pain like waiting for a large attachment to upload or download.
I do not plan a vacation around a hotel with broadband access, if I have a choice between two hotels that are the same rate per night, I always go with the one that has broadband access.
Why? I maintain several WEB sites as a side business, and it never fails that something breaks when I am out of town. Fixing a WEB site on broadband takes up less of my vacation time than it would on dial-up.
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Gwailo
join:2000-07-16
Richardson, TX
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From the PC Mag article: "Arriving at the luxurious Westin Century Plaza Hotel and Spa on L.A.'s west side..." and "There were other Ziff Davis editors at the hotel..." - now I know why a PC Magazine is way too expensive when you pick up a copy at a supermarket / magazine stand!
I travel a lot and most hotels tend to use either STSN or Wayport for guests broadband. From my experience, Wayport is far better. But regardless, I rarely "hurriedly checked in and raced up to my room to get online" as Lance Ulanoff (the PC Mag writer) did |
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reub2000
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join:2001-12-28
Evanston, IL | reply to achuchma
Mabye you should take a vacation, and not worry about your web site? |
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russotto
join:2000-10-05
Collegeville, PA | There are no vacations for the self-employed. Their bosses are vicious taskmasters. |
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Nightfall
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| said by russotto :
There are no vacations for the self-employed. Their bosses are vicious taskmasters.
That and there are those of us who do consulting work on the side. Don't get me wrong, I do take 1-2 weeks a year out for just me and the wife. However, she understands my job just as I understand hers. She is a doctor of pharmacy and works for a local hospital. There are times she is called up or in to help. That is part of her job and I understand that.
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Freezone
join:2000-09-29
Southfield, MI
| Broadband adds to the vaccation. I look up local attractions and the like. And I rest easy that my business is not in the crapper.
Also I can log on to my home pc and know that at least if I was robbed I have that |
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achuchma
join:2001-04-11
Tampa, FL
| reply to reub2000
said by reub2000 :
Mabye you should take a vacation, and not worry about your web site?
It is not my website, it is the websites that I am under contract to operate.
When you have several companies and a few small government accounts that pay you $450/year each to operate and maintain their site, you have to make sure that when something goes wrong, that you can fix it ASAP.
As russotto said, there are no vacations for the self-employed.
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