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I remember it as the quality and speed of the connection being inversely proportional. You would get 50mb/s for free at a cheap motel, but pay $25/day for "Busi
by jtokoph 3y ago
I remember it as the quality and speed of the connection being inversely proportional. You would get 50mb/s for free at a cheap motel, but pay $25/day for "Business Class" wifi that might hit 768kb/s at the Ritz Carlton at off peak hours.
- bombcar 3y agoThe cheap motel would have a connection and a cheap Wi-Fi router, and you’d get the whole bandwidth (even today sometimes I find a fat nearly gigabit pipe in the middle of nowhere). The expensive larger hotel would have a fancy barely working system from Cisco that monitored and limited bandwidth. Sometime, however, there would be an Ethernet Jack under the table that would give you full 100mb/s.