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Re: Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi

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Post by kmanimaran »

cgh wrote: post #42
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.

Not to mention hotels like, for example, the Hyatt Santa Clara that make you pay for wifi on top of the $300-$400 per night room. It's good to see that hotelwifitest distinguishes which hotels expect you to pay for wifi.

Hyatt Santa Clara offers free hi-speed WiFi and no longer charges for WiFi access anymore. Its one of the fastest and best connections out there as this hotel was chosen by Hyatt and Cisco to be one of their innovation properties.

Re: Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi

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Post by kalleboo »

yxhuvud wrote: post #154
jusben1369 wrote: post #101

With the increasing amount of bandwidth (in US plans anyways) I wonder if the days of hotel WiFI is short lived anyways. We'll all be hotspotting it soon if we aren't already. Maybe if you are staying somewhere longer than a week and doing a lot of work in your room....but that seems like a small subset.

Hotspot is very nice when possible, but you really don't want to do it when traveling internationally. Paying $10 to use the internet would be fine, but paying that much for a 20MB quota makes it a nonstarter.

Nowadays I get a local prepaid SIM card the minute I get off the airplane while traveling internationally.

Re: Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi

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Post by peteretep »

wtallis wrote: post #182
peteretep wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good thing you're not a lawyer, because it's certainly illegal in the UK... http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18

It looks to me like that only clearly applies to unauthorized access to programs and data stored on a computer. Unauthorized routing of packets through a computer is not obviously covered by that law.

The very, very first clause:

    > he causes a computer to perform any function with intent 
    > to secure access to any program or data held in ***any*** 
    > computer

Re: Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi

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Post by jonesdc »

shekhar101 wrote: post #150
gergles wrote: post #145

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Also, HN doesn't have a private messaging feature. If users don't put their email in the free-text field on their profile, there's no way to get in touch with them privately.

He probably also doesn't know that he isn't getting any 'notifications' for reply on his comments and most probably he's not going to see this either :D

Haha, I'm an avid reader of HN, so I tend to revisit articles to check for updates.

Thanks for the help everyone

Re: Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi

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Post by cgh »

kmanimaran wrote: post #191
cgh wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to mention hotels like, for example, the Hyatt Santa Clara that make you pay for wifi on top of the $300-$400 per night room. It's good to see that hotelwifitest distinguishes which hotels expect you to pay for wifi.

Hyatt Santa Clara offers free hi-speed WiFi and no longer charges for WiFi access anymore. Its one of the fastest and best connections out there as this hotel was chosen by Hyatt and Cisco to be one of their innovation properties.

Very nice, thanks for the update.

Re: Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi

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Post by DanBC »

JadeNB wrote: post #111
DanBC wrote: post #106

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Good tip but is it sensible to admit to several criminal offences on a public forum?

Surely spoofing the user agent is unobjectionable at worst, and spoofing the MAC address perhaps only mildly discouraged? I can't imagine its actually being illegal (but, then again, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_piggybacking for unexpected illegalities).

Well, it depends what the hotel policy is. If it's "free wifi for Apple devices" then there's some kind of fraud happening.

The fact that the hotel is incompetent in preventing that fraud by relying on UserAgent seems less important than intent of user when changing UA string.

Re: Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi

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Post by scuba7183 »

CSMastermind wrote: post #190
TimJRobinson wrote: post #176

Tip for travellers: Learn how to set a static IP address on your devices. I've been travelling through South East asia for the last 3 months and at about 20 - 30% of the hotels I stay at the WiFi works fine but their DHCP does not. I presume this is because most routers in default config cache IP address for clients and when they run out of free IP address they just fail to assign new ones to new clients. If you noti…

Just note this probably won't work in the US. Most hotels here do not use a Class C subnet unless it's a shitty motel running off of a linksys router.

What do they use instead?
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