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After traveling around the world I definitely see the cheaper hotel better wifi paradox. Expensive chains require a terms of service to cover the liability of
by eric4smith 4y ago
After traveling around the world I definitely see the cheaper hotel better wifi paradox.
Expensive chains require a terms of service to cover the liability of illegal goings on with use of wifi.
Cheap hotels don’t really pay too much attention to that and so the wifi is simply a password given at the front desk.
To tell you the truth I would require people to have sign a TOS as well if I had a hotel.
These businesses are highly regulated and inspected. For cheaper hotels if they get sued they can just sell or walk away from it and still be alive.
Back in my home country I gave free wifi to some people in the village. And at some point I had to take it away.
So many people started to gather around the front of my house that it became annoying. Some people even started to come into the property. Suffice to say I shut it down soon. Then everyone hated me.
It’s not as easy as it sounds.
Nothing is free.
- breck 4y ago> Back in my home country I gave free wifi to some people in the village. And at some point I had to take it away. Interesting. Did you consider just setting up free wifi routers across the village so they didn't have to congregate in one place?
- eric4smith 4y agoWhy do so many people never consider the cost of things these days? Would make for a good essay or video.
- warrenm 4y ago>Would make for a good essay or video. they've been made thousands upon thousands of times people don't want to pay for things they've decided they're entitled to
- sokoloff 4y agoI have an open wifi network at my house. I used to have it wide open until I saw a neighbor using a LOT of traffic on a consistent basis. I now have it traffic shaped to a tiny trickle of bandwidth, but enough for a casual passerby to check their email/Facebook, send an iMessage, or get some map data, but nowhere near enough to stream or download anything unless you have extreme patience.
- voisin 4y ago> Expensive chains require a terms of service to cover the liability of illegal goings on with use of wifi. Why don’t they bury this in the terms you agree to when you book the room? Also, what liability can the provider actually incur in this situation? Seems like corporate paranoia.
- supertrope 4y agoIf the local prosecutor thinks IP address = terrorist, pedophile, drug dealer, or worse of all a copyright infringer then it can be heavily armed police shutting down the business and confiscating all computerized items.