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3 Billion Chinese People Can Be Wrong
join:2004-01-01
Ellijay, GA
| Restful Sleep... ...is a lot easier to get if you have access to your email. not to mention illegal music downloads, pr0n, and Star Treck convention schedules.
its a wonder that there ever WAS a hotel industry before broadband.
/stupidity
honestly, i had nothing to say but i like to be the first one on these posts :-P
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kalphearion
In nomine Patri
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join:2003-11-08
Denver, CO
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| when I go on vacation Its to a place that I will be out of the resort the whole time. Business Purposes I would like to see alot more hotels have better connections.
"Hey mom, I know you paid well over 1000 dollars for this trip, but I am going to just sit in the hotel and play on my laptop." NO THANKS
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tdkyo
join:2002-12-07
Rochester, NY
| Slow online service I went into this one hotel and they gave out free "high-speed" internet connection. When I did the speed test, the upload speed was nearly non-existent and the download speed was only and barely twice of 56K. (I think they divided the bandwidth per used room) It was so slow that when downloading full speed of 12 Kilobytes per second, I couldn't surf the net.
Heck, you really don't need to download during your vacation. Just check e-mail/forums and enjoy life without the wires.:) | |
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Joshua
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join:2004-01-04
Phoenix, AZ
| I got broadband on a boat I got broadband on a boat, why not get broadband in a hotel? Not such a bad idea. Normally, I think every hotel should have broadband in these ages. And why did Carnival get broadband before hotels?
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| Cyber2lz
join:2001-11-15
Odessa, FL
| Re: It is a benefit I look for in a hotel! 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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join:2001-04-11
Tampa, FL
| Re: It is a benefit I look for in a hotel! 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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reub2000
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join:2001-12-28
Evanston, IL | Re: It is a benefit I look for in a hotel! Mabye you should take a vacation, and not worry about your web site? | |
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join:2000-10-05
Collegeville, PA | Re: It is a benefit I look for in a hotel! There are no vacations for the self-employed. Their bosses are vicious taskmasters. | |
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join:2000-09-29
Southfield, MI
| Re: It is a benefit I look for in a hotel! 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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join:2001-04-11
Tampa, FL
| 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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join:2000-11-21
Leawood, KS
| Re: It is a benefit I look for in a hotel! 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
| 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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ced06
join:2004-03-12
Towanda, PA | . A guy I know went to Europe on vacation (Sweden or Norway...I can't remember). Anyways he had a wireless T3 connection in the hotel.  | |
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aitech
Guru. Kneel
join:2000-12-19
Boston, MA
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| I look for it.. I most certainly look for it. Earlier this year for work, I had to travel up and down the East coast, and it seems that 2004 is the year all hotels are getting broadband. You have no idea how many hotels I stayed at (nicer hotels, Hilton, Wyndham, Mariott, Holiday Inns (corp ones).) were JUST getting it installed as I stayed. I felt like I was riding the installation tidelwave. One of the LA Quintas I stayed at (which offer 768/768 btw) literally had the techs come install the jack the day I was leaving. So did a residence inn, a ramada had the broadband guys installing as we arrived.. etc etc. This seems to be a huge trend all of a sudden, and I for one am happy with it. When your working on the road, my first question is, "Do you have free high speed internet?" NO? Ok, thanks.
It beats having to find a kinkos or using dialup..
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hedyd4u
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join:2003-12-16
Schenectady, NY | Broadband on Vacation? I would not dream of bringing a computer on vacation, business may be one thing but vacation. Isn't a vacation to get away and relax? If I took a computer on vacation I would be sure to stay on the first floor so my fall would not far. | |
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dslwanter
Why would I want DSL? I have FTTH
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join:2002-12-16
Lowellville, OH
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| Bullllllllllll sh!tttt Let me say this...I have checked into a few hotels that claim they have it. Well they only put high speed internet on their advertisements because it is "coming soon". When I went to Erie PA for the weekend. I checked in and out of 3 different hotels all 3 saying they have it but when I call the lobby, "oh it's coming soon".
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IronChefMoto
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join:2001-02-08
Alpharetta, GA
| Arescom at hotel - avoid it I paid the Arescom service $9.95 for 24 hours of broadband when I was staying 1-night at an Amerisuites hotel. It was a work night, and I needed to check e-mail/upload some files for the next day.
Speeds were awful. Worse than DSL Lite from BellSouth. It was NOT worth the money spent on the access for the 24 hours. I should've stayed at a Courtyard. 
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caesarv
join:1999-08-02
Santa Rosa, CA
| Don't leave home without it! A few weeks ago we went on vacation to Santa Barbara (if you consider visiting a mother-in-law as a vacation!) and stayed at the Best Western Pepppertree inn that had wireless. There was no charge for the wireless. I counted about 10 APs and the speed was extremely good. This was the first time we stayed at a place with wireless, and now that I have been sucked in, I have a feeling that wireless will now become a requirement for us on any vacation (assuming there is a choice). I'm sold on it!
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