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Re: Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi

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Post by wahsd »

I hope this catches on and it can be used to shame and blame hotel chains. I can't recall a single instance where hotel wifi, let alone wire, as even remotely fast.

These hotels normally charge $20-50 per day of internet and they provide shitty service. It drive me mad. I have learned that you can complain and get some significant bonus points out of it. I wish more people complained about the internet service in order to push for faster speeds and better latency, let alone not having your connection drop.

Re: Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi

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Post by yaro2 »

brokentone wrote: post #7

It's hard enough to use availability of free wifi as a booking filter, let alone quality. Wonder if there isn't space for an independent filtering service -- taking the listings from elsewhere and simply sorting by your own criteria.

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 filters (including this one) soon.

Re: Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi

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Post by bduerst »

I used to do consulting and traveled 100%. The term "High Speed Internet" is a common misnomer with Hotels, and was a bane of my existence, because it typically meant > 56k but These were with Hyatt, Marriott and Hilton hotels, mind you. If aggregaters like Hipmunk could incorporate this speed data, the way that they have with in-flight wifi, then hopefully there will be a push to improve this standard.

Re: Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi

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Post by kudu »

yaro2 wrote: post #6
kudu wrote: post #3

Seems nice, although I have a 60Mbps line at home, and am only getting 30-40 Mbps on the speed test.

kudu, are you getting 60Mbps at http://www.speedtest.net ?

Sure: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3645854520

Edit: Ran another test on your site and got 61.4 Mbps. It might have been an issue on my end, not too sure. Great work!

Edit 2: Ran yours once again and got 31 Mbps. There seems to be an issue with consistency, although this could be my ISP.

Re: Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi

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Post by yaro2 »

TheLoneWolfling wrote: post #4
alwaysdoit wrote: post #2

I'd like latency as well as speed. A lot of hotels I have been to have really high ping times.

Also: censorship and traffic shaping.

I think traffic shaping would be really nice to detect and report. Something that we will explore once we move beyond HTML5 client.

Re: Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi

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Post by janjongboom »

While the WiFi in most hotels is horrendous, wired internet is pretty awesome most of the time. A network cable is always in my suitcase and my laptop can run as an access point for my other devices. A separate access point could also come in handy (you have very small ones nowadays).

During JSDay.it people had a lot of time even connecting to the WiFi while I was running at 80 mbps.

Re: Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi

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Post by yaro2 »

wahsd wrote: post #11

I hope this catches on and it can be used to shame and blame hotel chains. I can't recall a single instance where hotel wifi, let alone wire, as even remotely fast. These hotels normally charge $20-50 per day of internet and they provide shitty service. It drive me mad. I have learned that you can complain and get some significant bonus points out of it. I wish more people complained about the internet service in ord…

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 it is free). Showcasing such hotels is win-win: travellers get fast WiFi, hotels get more business for their effort.

Re: Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi

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Post by joshavant »

bduerst wrote: post #13

I used to do consulting and traveled 100%. The term "High Speed Internet" is a common misnomer with Hotels, and was a bane of my existence, because it typically meant > 56k but These were with Hyatt, Marriott and Hilton hotels, mind you. If aggregaters like Hipmunk could incorporate this speed data, the way that they have with in-flight wifi, then hopefully there will be a push to improve this standard.

As a fellow traveling worker, I find the same problem.

For this subset of society, wifi speed is a crucial deciding factor. Top 3, for me, at least.

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