Shawn Hirn wrote:
> In article ,
> "Billnech" wrote:
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>>Seems to me that a lot of hotel high speed internet links, whether wireless
>>or wired, are remarkably slow. What has been your experience?
I've seen many hotels use satellite internet service, and I've
clocked great bandwidth when the hotel was empty, or early in the
morning. However I've noted when it starts to fill up, around 8pm, it
slows to dsl speed.
> I haven't experienced slow service, but I rarely require much bandwidth
> when I travel. I usually just check my email and send the ocassional
> photo as a postcard.
At home, I have only dial-up, so when we travel I bring a stack of
blank cdroms and download the latest Linux distros. :)
> The problem I have with hotel broadband is when its wireless. Just this
> past week, I stayed in a DoubleTree that offered wireless access in-room
> for $4 per day. I signed up for the first day, but the zone where my
> laptop received the wireless signal was only a few feet from the hotel
> room's door. If I took my laptop from the desk in the room to the bed,
> the signal would drop. On the other hand, I also discovered that the
> network administrators of that hotel did not block out all the network
> ports so I was able to open up an ssh session to my Unix server back at
> work and check my email that way for free during the remaining three
> days of my stay at that hotel.
I've found several hotels that leave their router's default
password set, so you can fiddle with things if you wanted to. Umm, not
that I'd set the mac filter to just *my* computer. :)
KR
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