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New iOS app to check hotel WiFi before booking
(itunes.apple.com)
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See hotel WiFi speed info directly on Hotels.com and TripAdvisor
(hotelwifitest.com)
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yaro2
12y ago
Sounds familiar... On hotelwifitest.com "Free WiFi" means free WiFi in guest rooms. If it is not a case for some hotels, please let the support know!
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12y ago
That 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
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yaro2
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I think traffic shaping would be really nice to detect and report. Something that we will explore once we move beyond HTML5 client.
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brokentone, 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 fil
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Yes, 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 t
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kudu, are you getting 60Mbps at http://www.speedtest.net ?