Caporegime
cheaper to buy a £10 USB dongle, and use PAYG (£2 a day).
Premier Inn Wi-Fi
- Thread starter Marky
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This was another idea that crossed my mind - I have an iPhone 4 and have an unlimited web bolt on with o2 - Couldn't I just use Tethering and use the iPhone as my internet point?Yeah they're stupidly expensive.
Luckily my phone can be turned into a Wireless router so I just use that with 3G.
No idea about iPhones sorry. I use WMWifiRouter but it's only for Windows mobile phones.
When I've been in the US most places throw it in for free with the room rate - and its usually atleast half a meg.
Depends entirely on the signal in the area your in and how many other users... generally if you get a good high speed signal then your looking at around 1-4mbit speeds, tho sustained speeds in average areas are more like 600kbit/s with average latency around 80-160ms and spikes to 1-2 seconds so gaming won't be great.
If you get a dongle and know the postcode for the premier inn check out the coverage maps for the appropriate provider - should give you a good idea what kinda speeds to expect.
On my Windows Mobile HTC, it's as simple as plugging the USB cable in and selecting "internet sharing" on the menu which pops up. And you're ready to surf within seconds.
Should be just as simple on the iPhone.
Caporegime
You wish !
Haha Premier Inn. I stayed in one on business and it was horrible. Despite being the only person in the 'restaurant' they still managed to forget that I'd ordered any food until I reminded them (they admitted they had forgotten).
Soldato
Pretty sure most iPhone plans youve gotta pay extra for tethering 
Soldato
Also, you'll only get it if it works! Everytime I've gone to the UK and used them it has always been broken.
It's a Travel Inn what do you expect, something decent?
If I had to stay in one of those I'd get another job personally.
Soldato
Pretty sure all McDonalds do free WiFi these days.
Talk about living the dream, watching pr0n on free WiFi while stuffing your face with Big Macs
Talk about living the dream, watching pr0n on free WiFi while stuffing your face with Big Macs
Soldato
You need a cable? ... (Turns on WIFI hotspot on his HTC Android (2.2) phone and connects the laptop to it)
Soldato
£5 an hour is insane.
My hotel (serviced appartment) in korea just changed its system, I get 10meg free and 100meg for about £20 a week extra.
Only probelm is no wireless in my room and since they changed the system im having issues with my Xbox and the NAT.
I used to get over 50meg free (speedtest results) but everyone was raping the connection so they changed the rules, I got a call asking me if i might have a virus on my computer when i was pulling down HDTV.
My hotel (serviced appartment) in korea just changed its system, I get 10meg free and 100meg for about £20 a week extra.
Only probelm is no wireless in my room and since they changed the system im having issues with my Xbox and the NAT.
I used to get over 50meg free (speedtest results) but everyone was raping the connection so they changed the rules, I got a call asking me if i might have a virus on my computer when i was pulling down HDTV.
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If you think the wifi is expensive / crap wait till you try the food!!
I use an o2 dongle
I use an o2 dongle
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Hotel i did a conference at on tuesday was £15/day for barely usable access. Ended up using my phone instead as i had full HSDPA speed, one of very few locations in torquay i get it.
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Jailbreak your iPhone then get a copy of mywi
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Just expense it? Surely it's a valid expense for work during evenings etc?
For what it's worth, the Premier Inn on Bath Road (by LHR) isn't *too* bad if you just need to sleep...
For what it's worth, the Premier Inn on Bath Road (by LHR) isn't *too* bad if you just need to sleep...