Hotel vs Mobile Broadband Speeds

A huge pain while travelling is getting to your hotel with *FREE* Internet access only to find that all the bandwidth is being used by Room 204 in an attempt to download the Internet for their personal use; burning all the available bandwidth and reducing your attempts to check email to the 14.4 days.
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A huge pain while travelling is getting to your hotel with *FREE* Internet access only to find that all the bandwidth is being used by Room 204 in an attempt to download the Internet for their personal use; burning all the available bandwidth and reducing your attempts to check email to the 14.4 days.

I’ve been using a Sprint PCS modem with my laptop to insure that I don’t fall into Internet withdrawals and even when a hotel’s wireless is working well, I’m finding it to often still be twice as slow as the modem.

Hotel Access Numbers

Sprint Wireless Numbers

WHAT TO DO NOW?

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2 Comments

  1. andy added these pithy words on June 1, 2008 | Permalink

    Just found out the same thing; although I have the Sprint AirCard USB dongle for my connection; seems to be pretty dang fast…

  2. Chris Bucchere added these pithy words on September 10, 2008 | Permalink

    Dude, I have a Verizon USB720 air card and one time I was staying on the 14th floor of the Hudson in downtown NYC and I thought I was getting really good connection speeds, so I tested my connection using speakeasy and it showed over 5 Mbps! There must have been a cell tower on the roof of the hotel or something crazy like that.

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