Hotel Wi-Fi Test lists Top Ten brands with fastest internet

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  Glenn March 3, 2014

  My only comment is their data is probably pretty limited. I’ve been using it a reasonable amount recently, and each time it appears I’m the first person to run it in various hotels. Once I do the hotel suddenly shows up on the list of hotels in the area with fast Wi-Fi. Before I ran the test it didn’t. If I leave it running so that it retests every 15 minutes, the confidence level listed goes up astronomically. Certainly gives me the impression there wasn’t any data on the hotel before I tried it. This is for hotels in Silicon Valley (tech savvy, you’d think the most likely audience for this, the most likely to know about this site, run its tests) that are fully booked pretty much all the time.

  So take its reports with a grain of salt at the moment.
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  No Fly Zone March 4, 2014

  Humm. While perhaps a great project, I don’t think that the results – simply brand, really mean much. At the end of the day, each hotel is a unique physical structure, each has its own challenges and, in most cases, the WiFi service is designed and implemented by a different vendor. A worthy score here means only that the individual house was probably engineered and configured by an excellent consultant. While the branded chains may have their own, in-house IT staff, this in-house kids specify and monitor standards; they do not design systems for individual houses.
  In my experience, hotel WiFi service can range world=class to nothing and from $25 to nothing. And at the end of the day it is truly a minimal cost service to provide. That said, many chains continue to consider it a Bonus Status Perk and one that they can often use to extract another few dollars or Euros from their other guests. I have far more respect for, and most often use hotels that include WiFi services as routine necessities like clean linens. And since you got me started, yes, WiFi and Bottled Water have a lot in common! While hotel tap water is always safe to drink in perhaps a dozen countries worldwide, savvy travelers do not. The idea that any hotel can extract an additional $1-$5 for a pint/half-litre of of water is disgusting. When I stay for more than a single quick overnight, I make it a point to buy my own bottled water. It may take a few minutes, but it is a great way to explore a little bit. And when the checkout clerk asks about water, I usually give them a polite but pointed mouthful about their abusive charges for water – a substance that SHOULD be both free and safe in any hotel, for two stars to to five stars. Have I been billed for water in four and five star hotels? Yes. And I refuse to pay! At the four/five level, I’ve never experienced a hard-ass who would not deduct the water fees when asked to do so. They probably make more than enough PROFIT from those who do not examine the bill or who do not have the balls to question anything. Water and WiFi are my pet peeves in even the very best of hotels. Period.

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