Hotel wi-fi directory
Dave Winer publishes his wi-fi speeds in his hotel rooms. I wish we’d all do that and name the hotels, holding those who don’t really offer high-speed to account (see my complaint about the Las Vegas Hilton here). If we all tagged these posts “hotelwifi” and put in the name of the hotel and its city, then we’d all be able to search on a hotel before we book to see whether they’re honest about their high-speed or not. Just a wish.
June 1st, 2007 at 8:40 am
Someone needs to tell hotel chains that not just anything over 56kbps is ‘high speed internet’. At the Omni in Montreal and the Allegro in Chicago, I was treated to 256kbps high speed internet. Granted it was free but 256 isn’t high speed.
June 1st, 2007 at 12:28 pm
[...] Jeff Jarvis suggests we gather a database of the hotels with the best Internet access. [...]
June 1st, 2007 at 2:37 pm
[...] Wifi By Sue Jeff Jarvis offers a good suggestion: list your hotel WiFi speed and tag it. Dave Winer publishes his wi-fi speeds in his hotel rooms. I [...]
June 1st, 2007 at 6:23 pm
[...] hotel wifi speed is a good [...]
June 1st, 2007 at 8:23 pm
amen Jeff…..why isn’t every hotel offering WIFI?????
June 1st, 2007 at 10:13 pm
see my complaint about the Las Vegas Hilton here
Bloody disgrace. Without access to my glorious 24 hour wi-fi techno fix, I will be forced to stare balefully out the window or speak to a minimum wage proletarian. Shocking stuff.
June 2nd, 2007 at 10:53 am
The problem is not whether or not the hotel offers wi-fi or a wired connection (as long as it’s not dial-up). It’s the hotels that skimp on their connection out to an ISP. 50 business travelers on 802.11b wi-fi connections, in a hotel that only has a couple DSL or T-1 lines out to the internet is not going to make for a good user experience.
June 2nd, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Actually, that list exists.
July 20th, 2007 at 11:37 am
Good site!
October 26th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
I think this is a great idea - effectively building a distributed db of hotel wifi reports. I’ve been working on a service that can be used to take a different approach to the same problem, with hopefully some additional benefits around more structured searching and linking to related information. This is described in more detail on my blog.