Hotel Internet

Edward78 · 28 Apr 2009 at 23:11

OMG!!!

Hxc · 28 Apr 2009 at 23:55

Use you phone! buy a data package and tether up your pc to it. Or just use the phone if it is simple browsing. Typing this on a one and a bit year old samsung in opera mini

Jez · 28 Apr 2009 at 23:56

Hxc said:
Use you phone! buy a data package and tether up your pc to it. Or just use the phone if it is simple browsing. Typing this on a one and a bit year old samsung in opera mini

Try telling my employer that :/

LiE · 29 Apr 2009 at 00:02

Seems to have picked up a bit now most people are in bed.

Does look like a 2mb BT line.

NiCkNaMe · 29 Apr 2009 at 00:04

Hxc said:
Use you phone! buy a data package and tether up your pc to it. Or just use the phone if it is simple browsing. Typing this on a one and a bit year old samsung in opera mini

Good for when your in the UK, bit expensive outside though

Saying that been using my phone to surf all week whilst at the library.

djmc0 · 29 Apr 2009 at 00:07

still shocking tbh, I was in a travelodge near Ipswich over new year that trebled that, and I thought that was bad, maybe we are all just a tad spoiled, Well I am living in the centre of London with a connection of 22mbps with BE*

Rroff · 29 Apr 2009 at 00:21

msm722 said:
Seems to have picked up a bit now most people are in bed.

Does look like a 2mb BT line.

They are probably being flagged as a heavy user and capped to 2Mbit down, 0.65mbit up during "peak" times, 6pm to midnight... the connection is probably a bit faster outside those hours. They even do this on the business connections

Ev0 · 29 Apr 2009 at 02:08

Never really had a problem with any hotel internet, wired or wireless, I've used before.

Typing this now connected up wirelessly at the Bellagio and the speed is just fine

Van Hellseek · 29 Apr 2009 at 02:44

The last hotel I stayed at didn't even have the internet. :/

God bless "3" dongles.

Flukester · 29 Apr 2009 at 07:39

If ever you have bad internet at a certain well known brand of inn's I'm prolly partially to blame.

The internet is setup through a stack of netgear layer 3 switches (1 for each floor), with each user / room on their own VLAN.

Then from the netgear switches a single link from core switch in comms room (a member of all VLANS) shoots across to a Nomadix box, which controls portal pages / allows reception to hand out tokens etc...a custom piece of software interfaces with this box at the front desk and privides a nice GUI for it.

Then lastly the Nomadix connects to the the internet via it's WAN port.

They work pretty well but the Nomadix units I believe are running very old CPUs and are pretty sluggish at times...I wouldn't expect good pings.