I did this for about a year after noticing that the Marriotts I tended to stay at were exposing Ethernet on the new desk/entertainment centers they'd retrofit i

I did this for about a year after noticing that the Marriotts I tended to stay at were exposing Ethernet on the new desk/entertainment centers they'd retrofit in the chain. After that year, I started noticing that the ports were dead, usually just unplugged from the wall, but then those started to go out. Eventually, those fancy A/V panels were boarded over with plastic, then eventually fully replaced with plastic insets. But for a short while, it was the promised land, and the moral of the story is that your mileage may vary these days.