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Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi
- alwaysdoit 12y agoI'd like latency as well as speed. A lot of hotels I have been to have really high ping times.
- TheLoneWolfling 12y agoAlso: censorship and traffic shaping.
- yaro2 12y agoI think traffic shaping would be really nice to detect and report. Something that we will explore once we move beyond HTML5 client.
- rlongstaff 12y agoMaybe the site should use something like http://www.pingtest.net/ http://www.pingtest.net/
- eli 12y agoWhich, unfortunately, requires Java.
- CanSpice 12y agoOnly for packet loss testing. If you don't have Java installed in your browser, you get "Pingtest.net requires Java for packet loss testing, but it does not appear to be installed in your browser. Click here for assistance." The ping and jitter tests still work without Java.
- yaro2 12y agoYes, latency is very important. We found that there is a strong negative correlation between bandwidth and latency (faster connections tend to have lower response times). That's why we decided to focus on speed first. We are planning to add ping testing as well.
- LukeShu 12y agoI'm sure you guys are on it, but: See apenwarr's 'Blip' for checking latency in the browser: https://github.com/apenwarr/blip https://github.com/apenwarr/blip
- TheLoneWolfling 12y agoLocked up FF when I tried it.
- LukeShu 12y agoReally? I've been using it in FF on GNU/Linux since it was announced 2013-04 without any issue (other than switching to a different tab seems to throttle connections). I've got the latest FF 31. What version/OS/graphics do you have?
- TheLoneWolfling 12y agoGot it. It was NoScript: NoScript set to allow scripts globally and it works, set to disable scripts by default and it freezes FF.
- superuser2 12y agoI would expect the very slowest connections to be T1s, which have excellent latency (and reliability) but almost no bandwidth. Then DSL/cable connections, with bandwidth between 5 and 100Mbps. Anything 100Mbps or greater would have fiber, with the correspondingly low latency again.
- alister 12y agoHaving stayed at a couple of the reviewed hotels in Brazil that get a good rating, you would think everything was fine. But latency is a HUGE problem in Brazil[1], and in probably any country that's far removed from the major backbones. Yes, I can watch Youtube just fine in Brazil but I can't tell you the number of times that Skype video or other highly interactive apps wouldn't start or conk out because of poor latency. The public has no comprehension of latency, but it's really important that this gets factored in somehow, especially for places like Brazil that generally have poor latency. [1] http://brazilsense.com/index.php?title=Wi-Fi_and_Internet_service_in_Brazil http://brazilsense.com/index.php?title=Wi-Fi_and_Internet_se...
- colinbartlett 12y agoI am really surprised to hear Brazil is far removed from backbones, being the most populous Latin American county by a massive margin.
- alister 12y agoBrazil is far from the economic center of the Internet. South Korea, a country with 1/4 of the population of Brazil, is probably better connected because it's on the route to Japan, China, etc. Brazil's poor latency may be partly explained by the fact that a lot of their connections have to go through the US and Canada: "The shape of the Internet varies considerably when examining individual regions. In Europe, the majority of cross-border capacity is between European countries, while in Latin America and the Caribbean the majority of international capacity is connected to the U.S. & Canada."[1] "More than 80% of Africa's and Latin America's international Internet bandwidth connect to cities outside their regions. In the case of Latin America, 60% of the region's interregional capacity connects to a single city, Miami."[2] Also, because of Brazil's distance from the economic center of the Internet, they probably don't get the advantage of unpaid peering relationships. [1] http://www.telegeography.com/assets/website/images/maps/global-internet-map-2010/global-internet-map-2010-x.jpg http://www.telegeography.com/assets/website/images/maps/glob... [2] http://www.telegeography.com/assets/website/images/maps/global-internet-map-2012/global-internet-map-2012-x.png http://www.telegeography.com/assets/website/images/maps/glob...
- kudu 12y agoSeems nice, although I have a 60Mbps line at home, and am only getting 30-40 Mbps on the speed test.
- yaro2 12y agokudu, are you getting 60Mbps at http://www.speedtest.net http://www.speedtest.net ?
- wahsd 12y agotry http://www.speekof.me http://www.speekof.me
- sp332 12y agoTypo: http://www.speedof.me/ http://www.speedof.me/
- kudu 12y agoSure: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3645854520 http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3645854520 Edit: Ran another test on your site and got 61.4 Mbps. It might have been an issue on my end, not too sure. Great work! Edit 2: Ran yours once again and got 31 Mbps. There seems to be an issue with consistency, although this could be my ISP.
- colinbartlett 12y agoI have 50/100 FiOS and consistently get higher speeds in tests. The only ISP I've ever had where I get higher than advertised. (They still suck, because HD Netflix is unusable at peak times without a VPN.)
- brokentone 12y agoIt's hard enough to use availability of free wifi as a booking filter, let alone quality. Wonder if there isn't space for an independent filtering service -- taking the listings from elsewhere and simply sorting by your own criteria.
- yaro2 12y agobrokentone, what is quality in your opinion? Is it connection speed? If it is more complex than that, what would be the best way to quantify it? Most hotels offer free WiFi, so it is easy to skip hotels with paid WiFi. We will add more filters (including this one) soon.
- coroxout 12y ago"Most hotels offer free WiFi" This may be true in the US but I don't think it's necessarily true in Europe. Too many hotels in the UK/Ireland claim to offer "internet access" which turns out to mean no wifi (or mysteriously permanently broken wifi) and one ancient PC in reception which nobody can tell you the password for. Germany was better for wifi but often had paid wifi in the rooms and free wifi only in reception, which I guess still lets them advertise it as "free". Still, I like the site idea. If I could use the site to avoid the above, all the better.
- pjmlp 12y agoThat is because we tend to have good UMTS/HSDPA connections in most cities.
- scarygliders 12y agoI'm sitting here in a Travelodge in Scotland and their WiFi access amounts to 30 minutes free then I'd have to pay for it - NOPEKTHX. So I'm using my android phone as a hotspot - it's probably more secure than attaching my laptop to the hotel's service anyway - plus my plan (3's The One Plan) allows unlimited hotspot use anyway, so why not. I remember being in a decent hotel in Singapore a decade and a bit ago which had wired internet access and I was curious and ran wireshark on my laptop booted into Linux - it was a horrifying sight of port scans and SMB exploit attempts. I laughed.
- cpr 12y agoThe potential downfall of general measurements like this is large conferences like WWDC, where if there's a geek in every room, the whole-hotel performance is going to suffer unless they've provisioned massive peak bandwidth. (Thinking of the Marriott near Moscone.)
- CanSpice 12y agoYou could plot the average performance over time, which would show not only how well or poorly a hotel does in general, but how it weathers high-volume events like conferences.
- wahsd 12y agoI hope this catches on and it can be used to shame and blame hotel chains. I can't recall a single instance where hotel wifi, let alone wire, as even remotely fast. These hotels normally charge $20-50 per day of internet and they provide shitty service. It drive me mad. I have learned that you can complain and get some significant bonus points out of it. I wish more people complained about the internet service in order to push for faster speeds and better latency, let alone not having your connection drop.
- yaro2 12y agoThat was the original idea of Hotel WiFi Test: use social media pressure to call out hotels with slow WiFi. That's still an important use case. Then, to our surprise, we found that some hotels provide very good WiFi (and in most cases it is free). Showcasing such hotels is win-win: travellers get fast WiFi, hotels get more business for their effort.
- dman 12y agoIn my experience Microtels have pretty good wifi and I have recently been seeking them out when possible for this very reason.
- bduerst 12y agoI used to do consulting and traveled 100%. The term "High Speed Internet" is a common misnomer with Hotels, and was a bane of my existence, because it typically meant > 56k but < 1 Mbps speeds. These were with Hyatt, Marriott and Hilton hotels, mind you. If aggregaters like Hipmunk could incorporate this speed data, the way that they have with in-flight wifi, then hopefully there will be a push to improve this standard.
- joshavant 12y agoAs a fellow traveling worker, I find the same problem. For this subset of society, wifi speed is a crucial deciding factor. Top 3, for me, at least.
- eli 12y agoWouldn't you just get a mobile hotspot? Or are you traveling to places with poor cell reception?
- sanswork 12y agoMobile hotspots are good but expensive. My wife and I have been working/living off one for the past 6 weeks and we're averaging around $100/week on internet costs even with extremely limiting our usage.
- codex_irl 12y agoHow much data are you consuming? $100 a week!! If you are in a Virgin Mobile (Sprint) 4G area with coverage - then buy one of their hotspots (used on ebay to save $$$), $5 a day buys you all the data you can eat & it stays fast. You can connect more than 2 devices. Save $86 a week. Alternativly, get on Verizons pre-paid plan: $45 a month for unlimited voice & text, subscribe to auto-pay & you get 1GB a month for free. You can buy an additional 3GB for $20 - you have 90 days to use up the data, the use your iphone as a hotspot.
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- cpfohl 12y agoTried typing "Boston" and nothing in the UI changed. Looks like it's 500-ing.
- jeroen 12y agoSame here: http://www.hotelwifitest.com/hotels/nl/amsterdam/ http://www.hotelwifitest.com/hotels/nl/amsterdam/ Edit: it's working.
- janjongboom 12y agoWhile the WiFi in most hotels is horrendous, wired internet is pretty awesome most of the time. A network cable is always in my suitcase and my laptop can run as an access point for my other devices. A separate access point could also come in handy (you have very small ones nowadays). During JSDay.it people had a lot of time even connecting to the WiFi while I was running at 80 mbps.
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- guelo 12y agoSorry, we've moved on to the future, we're too cool to have laptops with useful ports anymore.
- colinbartlett 12y agoI know you're just joking, but the thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter I bought years ago has been worth it's weight in gold at hotels with slow wifi and fast wired.
- joeframbach 12y agoOther things that have been worth their weight in gold while traveling: my thinkpad with built-in ethernet AND vga!
- msh 12y agobut it dont have a punchcard reader!
- zevyoura 12y agoI realize this is a joke, but if it's a reference to Apple laptops, it's worth noting that an ethernet plug literally will not fit on recent models of the Macbook Pro or Air; they're simply too narrow. I'd much prefer a narrower portable to an ethernet port; when I need one I'm happy to use a dongle.
- jonknee 12y agoBetween shoddy quality and security, I just tether to LTE. That means no Netflix, but Netflix usually runs especially poorly at hotels anyway.
- pjbrunet 12y agoGood reason to get a Clear hotspot, no more looking for the working WIFI connection, or cafe password, or trying to get the "I agree" TOS page to load. (PS: I'm not invested in Clear, have no affiliation.)
- silviogutierrez 12y agoSadly, it seems like Clear no longer takes new customers. I'm grandfathered in... at least for now.
- andor 12y agoWhat are the estimations based on? Apparently not on price, hotel category or an interpolation between other close hotels.
- joshmn 12y agoWas considering doing this for all wifi networks. I have an API built in Rails for it if anyone wants it (100k+ public wifi hotspots, such as coffee shops, restaurants, etc), shoot me an email: josh@josh.mn
- grinich 12y agoHow did you build that database?
- cblock811 12y agoI used to work in the hotel industry in everything from Doubletree up to Ritz Carlton. Wifi was one of the most frustrating amenities we offered because it was always terrible! As an avid traveler who probably spends too much time on his computer I got annoyed as a guest as well. Cheers to the people behind this website. I'm sharing it with everyone from my old industry.
- mdellabitta 12y agoSomeone needs to cross-correlate this with bedbug reports.
- spullara 12y agoI tried to submit a support request to add the hotel I am sitting in and it got a CSRF error...
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- bjornsing 12y agoHere's another one: http://speedspot.org/ http://speedspot.org/
- msoad 12y agoI gave up on public WiFis on Starbucks and hotels years ago. I pay for LTE and I'm pretty happy with it. I pay $120 for two lines and 10GB data. For me it's reasonable and I never hit 10GB limit. For people who travel a lot this website is a great resource.
- danielpal 12y agoOne thing that I noticed, is that the more expensive the hotel, the worst is the WiFI. Same applies when I have to pay for WiFI - the more I pay, the worst it is. I've found that 3 star hotels that offer free WiFI usually have the best speeds/service. Whereas 5 star hotels that usually charge $14.95 daily have the worst.
- maccard 12y ago> Whereas 5 star hotels that usually charge $14.95 daily have the worst. The people that stay in these hotels normally aren't paying for the rooms (business trips for instance), so the company will pay the cost of the wifi for the duration of the stay without question
- dbecker 12y agoI used to be a frequent business traveler... and while I didn't mind the charge, poor speed/reliability was enough to avoid a hotel on future visits.
- seanmcdirmid 12y ago5 star hotels aren't really for most business travels though. I mean, if you are an exec ya, but usually you just get a 4 star Hilton at best. 5 star hotels are for rich people who won't notice. 5 star resorts usually ding you for lots of things, its how they make money (travelling next week to Thailand, psychologically prepared but at least the internet is free).
- maccard 12y ago> 5 star hotels aren't really for most business travels though. I mean, if you are an exec ya, but usually you just get a 4 star Hilton at best. 5 star hotels are for rich people who won't notice. Ah, I know that. (WEll actually, I don't. Ive never stayed in a 5 star hotel before). but, I was just making the point. > 5 star resorts usually ding you for lots of things, its how they make money (travelling next week to Thailand, psychologically prepared but at least the internet is free). Thailand is fine for that. I stayed there last year, (around this time) for about a month, and stayed in 4 star accomodation most of the time for less than 30 bucks a night (euro) for two people, and we always got breakfast, wifi, and towels. My advice is book one night in a hotel, and go in to the reception and ask how much it is to stay on. You'll normally get 3-400 baht off. Now I want to go back to thailand..
- spacefight 12y agoAlso don't forget to establish a VPN connection. This might sometimes even help with slow running DNS resolvers in place over DHCP and it helps for sure to protect both your surfing habits and your unencrypted traffic.
- t4s0thcmdr 12y agoI prefer to choose hotels by the amount of bedbugs in the TripAdvisor reviews.
- Cowicide 12y agoWould like to see this for coffee shops.
- elwell 12y agohttp://commitcoffee.com/ http://commitcoffee.com/
- Cowicide 12y agoThanks!
- FrederikLi 12y agoJust check out the Original at http://speedspot.org http://speedspot.org and download the iOS or Android App. There you can find hotels, cafes, restaurants, etc. Bigger Database too. Still pretty crazy how the bad copy goes viral but not the original even if it's used by hundred thousands of people each month ... but hey such is life.
- Cowicide 12y agoThank you, I'll check it out!
- ejr 12y agoThe key measure we should all be paying attention is "Confidence". Ex: Some of the hotels in New York show very high speeds, but also "Confidence: 9.2%". Confidence value shows how thoroughly the WiFi has been tested at this hotel. The confidence value depends on several factors, including the number of speed tests taken, how recently the tests occurred, and the diversity of tests in terms of the time of day, day of the week, and point within the travel season.
- andyv88 12y agoSomeone should really make an 'Airbnb' for High Speed Internet Connections around the world. Hotels, universities, internet cafes, business centres - a lot of businesses would pay to find high speed internet locations around the world for business trips
- jackweirdy 12y agoThere is commitcoffee.com, which goes a tiny step towards that for coffee shops
- mandeepj 12y agoIf I experience trouble with WiFi during my stay at a hotel then I just connect to internet using hotspot created from my android phone. I understand not everyone have android phone. Anyway, we are in a hotel for couple hours only. Rest of time either we are sleeping or we are outside either working or enjoying our vacation.
- csours 12y agoI would much rather choose a hotel on the basis of their A/C and air quality.
- sveiss 12y agoI'm really more interested in packet loss/reliability than speeds when I'm in a hotel. 5Mbps, 50Mbps, or 500Mbps, all are fine if they work reliabily. When they don't, they're all equally bad. Trying to use Skype or SSH in the evenings in a hotel is frequently a horrible experience.
- noja 12y agoIn my experience high speeds means exactly that.
- DigitalSea 12y agoThis is brilliant. As a developer, whenever I have to travel somewhere, a decent connection for moving files around is paramount. You often see, "High Speed Internet" being advertised at most hotels, it is usually anything but high speed. Speed is a crucial factor for me when staying somewhere. Nice hotels seem to focus on the service and aesthetics, but the poor old Wifi connection gets left behind.
- r00fus 12y agoWhy are the confidence% so low across the board?
- Robadob 12y agoIt would be nice if the nightly rate were either localised to the currency local to the hotel or of the visiting ip.
- r00fus 12y agoSeems like a tough thing to accurately score - you have issues of coverage (do certain floors or the lobby have coverage vs. the rooms), dropped connections, over subscriptions at peak times, inconvenience of re-entering user info, etc.
- icantthinkofone 12y agoMy wife checked us into the Sheraton in Tulsa (or was it Oklahoma City?) on the return leg of our wide circle trip out west and she turned to me and asked if I wanted to pay $10 for internet access. I almost exploded. One of the managers tried to tell me the reason they charged for it was to be up front about the costs of services they provided cause they were a "full service hotel". If I wasn't so tired, I would have asked if they also charged for soap. The managers in the morning just stared at me blankly when I went off on them in the morning. "Why do they charge for internet but not phone service?", I asked.
- mbillie1 12y agoThe hospitality industry doesn't operate at nearly the same pace as the tech industry. If you think back, 10 years ago it wouldn't have seemed unreasonable for a hotel to charge for internet at all. They're likely under contract, they realize an additional revenue stream, etc. It's hardly the morning staff's fault.
- icantthinkofone 12y agoObviously you think the staff does not represent Sheraton in any way, shape or form. With that thought in mind, no one at Sheraton represents them except ... whom? You also seem to want to ignore the fact that, on a 4000-mile, 10-day journey, they were the only hotel that charged for internet. This doesn't include the multitude of business trips I take every month where, again, I never get charged for internet. So, iow, charging for internet service is not the norm. Nor is charging for telephone service. And don't mention it to the front desk. It's not their fault.
- pud 12y agoSometimes wifi is great in one room, but the signal doesn't reach another room. I HAVE A DREAM that, one day, people review the wifi of different rooms in the same hotel. I'm so glad someone built this. I've been wanting it (or to build it) forever. Even if I'm not picking up the tab, I'd rather stay at a crappy hotel with great wifi--vs a Four Seasons with crappy wifi. Hopefully hotels realize this and start competing on wifi quality.
- alok-g 12y agoAs a start, knowing mean and sigma may be a better option.
- wwweston 12y agoWhile we're at it, can we also choose them by the actual things that let you get a good night's sleep -- whether the beds are not only nice enough but fit your preferences, whether the rooms are acoustically isolated enough you can't hear your neighbors walking (or watching TV or talking or getting busy), whether the temperature controls of the room work efficiently, and whether the room doesn't smell offensive. Right now, hotel ratings are completely broken for personal bed comfort (I find I'm slightly more likely get a decent night's sleep at a Motel 6 than at a Fairfield, because I'm more likely to find memory foam beds at the latter -- yes, I know they're great for some people, but they're absolutely horrible for anyone who doesn't sleep well when warm and wants something more supportive than conforming). There's some correlation between ratings and the other things (and it's nice to see more hotels going smoke free), but it's by no means certain. I'd love to see a rating of internet reliability, but I can get internet in other ways if I need to. If I'm paying for a room for the night, there's no other way for me to sleep, and my experience is that it's generally a crapshoot as to whether I'm going to get a good night's sleep or not.
- calbear81 12y agoWithin a hotel, rooms in the same category can have widely varying characteristics. Rooms with ocean views could have full views, others could have a sliver view. We've collected tips on quiet rooms, large rooms, and rooms with a view for about 30K+ hotels on Room77.com under the "Insider Tips" section on the hotel pages.
- thatben 12y agoYet another idea I had and then assumed someone would get done. Just need to promote it (and I'll use it)!
- jusben1369 12y agoWith the increasing amount of bandwidth (in US plans anyways) I wonder if the days of hotel WiFI is short lived anyways. We'll all be hotspotting it soon if we aren't already. Maybe if you are staying somewhere longer than a week and doing a lot of work in your room....but that seems like a small subset.
- yxhuvud 12y agoHotspot is very nice when possible, but you really don't want to do it when traveling internationally. Paying $10 to use the internet would be fine, but paying that much for a 20MB quota makes it a nonstarter.
- kalleboo 12y agoNowadays I get a local prepaid SIM card the minute I get off the airplane while traveling internationally.
- itazula 12y agoA number of older hotels have decent wired connections. Otherwise, if both the wired and the WiFi is bad or non-existent, I use my personal router (WiMAX) and connect that way. My phone is good option too.
- cnst 12y agoI used to be fond of requiring high speed internet access in the hotels. I gave up, upgraded to Unlimited 4G on my T-Mobile line, and don't worry about these things anymore. Problem solved! :-) Unfortunately, you're very unlikely to be getting decent speeds and latency at the hotels, and most managers don't even care.
- thejosh 12y agoYeah, but if you're travelling internationally it's a PITA. :)
- cnst 12y agoAre you referring to the throttling of 128kbps for T-Mobile US postpaid customers travelling internationally? :-) Well, yeah, that ain't gonna be fast, but, if hotels abroad have as crappy the internet as those in the States do, that's still likely to be a huge improvement. :-) Or you could always get a local SIM for some more unlimited fun.
- _asciiker_ 12y agoThis is great, is there an API? ...I still remember paying $10 per 30 minutes of Wifi at the Ghana Airport
- adamonduty 12y agoI wish I could add some comments while submitting the speed test. The wifi in my hotel is free, but the speed I'm receiving is only obtainable by using a code provided by the front desk. The normal speeds are quite a bit slower.
- elwell 12y agoI'm in a hotel right now, so I did the test feature. I must say I'm impressed. A couple clicks and it correctly found the right hotel instantly and did the test seamlessly. Bravo.
- GordeHead 12y agoWell, the quality of service here is actually non-existent seeing as how the entire WiFi protocol is still vulnerable to interception, interruption within milliseconds. So, the word "quality" wouldn't necessarily be the word to identify the current capabilities of any wireless network using the standard protocol suite available to the user today.
- paines 12y agoThis is heavily dependend on your hardware. In June I visited Australia, and technically speaking it was a nightmare using an iPhone5 (Greyhound Buses worked 80% of the time, Hostels like 30%). All Android users had a much better Wifi experience. Now back here in Berlin I see the same trend. I started a new job and I am staying each week in a different hotel. I just got an Nexus 5, and when I compare it next to my iPhone 5 in the same place, most of the time Android can connect to the Wifi, why the iPhone5 can't. Speed of course is a complete different story. I am wondering if this is an iPhone5 or iOS issue in general.
- keerthiko 12y agoThese needs to also be integrated with AirBnB
- mark_lee 12y agosometimes I'm really desperate to internet speed of those hotels, I wonder those hotel managers still live in the 90's.
- mark_lee 12y agoAny hotels should make wifi free and good as TV.
- known 12y agoBrilliant.
- TimJRobinson 12y agoTip for travellers: Learn how to set a static IP address on your devices. I've been travelling through South East asia for the last 3 months and at about 20 - 30% of the hotels I stay at the WiFi works fine but their DHCP does not. I presume this is because most routers in default config cache IP address for clients and when they run out of free IP address they just fail to assign new ones to new clients. If you notice the wifi works but your computer or phone times out when connecting set your ip settings as below: IP Address: 192.168.1.xxx (xxx being between 50 - 200) Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.1.1 DNS: 192.168.1.1 This has worked for me in 90% of cases and you get your own private WiFi (as none of the other guests can access it ;)). There was one place I stayed at in hanoi where I got my own 90Mbps / 40Mbps connection due to nobody else being able to get on. Sometimes the ip is 192.168.0.xxx and on rare occasions it's been 10.0.0.xxx. I've tried to help hotels fix this issue as I go but it seems most either get some tech to setup their router or plug it in and keep the default settings (sooo many places have 'admin' as their router password) and don't know how to fix it.
- cal2 12y agoI really need to educate myself further about these sorts of things. Great tip, much appreciated!
- dec0dedab0de 12y agoxxx being between 50 - 200 You're probably better off with a lower number that would likely be outside of the dhcp pool. It's fairly standard to set aside the first 5-20 addresses for future network equipment.
- wikwocket 12y agoI am not sure whether the people who set up off-the-shelf residential routers with default settings are going to follow standard best practices for network design... ;)
- CSMastermind 12y agoJust note this probably won't work in the US. Most hotels here do not use a Class C subnet unless it's a shitty motel running off of a linksys router.
- JohnTHaller 12y agoBetter tip: Just bring your own hotspot. If you're a frequent traveler, your life will be SO much better. If you're not a frequent traveler, using the hotspot feature on your phone and paying for it just that month (if you don't already) is often faster and cheaper than a couple days of hotel paid wifi. Hotel wifi is spotty and incredibly insecure compared to a wireless hotspot.
- CSMastermind 12y agoWatch out for the hotels where people report 30-40 mps. People are getting those speeds when there's no one else on the network. Which is awesome until you have a full house and no per-user cap, then it will be unusable for most guests
- passive 12y agoBased on a stay two weeks ago, I've been craving just such a service. Their reports match what I experienced, at least on the negative end. Now I just have to convince our travel agent to use this for future bookings. :)
- walruscop 12y agoSweet!
- namDa 12y agoI hope network infrastructure gets advances more quickly so hotels with lower speeds will realize they have fallen behind.
- benzesandbetter 12y agoNice! I've wanted something like this for a while. Glad someone built it. Seems like ping time is missing, which is critical to me. Also, would be great to have some measure of ping/speed/reliability over time, either via repeated automated testing or guest ratings. I've often stayed at places which had decent speed, but unserviceable ping times, which is really a buzzkill for VoIP and online meetings. Another issue is wifi that is fast, but unreliable. I've experienced a lot of that since moving to Brazil; Internet that just goes missing at intervals too regular to ignore. Would be interesting if a widely-used service like speedtest.net would enable some tagging of IP addresses to pool results, so you could see the aggregated results for a given hotel over time.