Re: 10 Mbit/s problem in your network

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Feb 26, 2013, at 6:49 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu>
>
> > On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:45:18 -0800, Jeroen van Aart said:
> > > Correct, one should not have expectations of fast reliable internet
> > > with low latency in a hotel.
> >
> > The part that always puzzled me is why a major high-tier chain like
> > Hilton can't get it right, but a Motel 6 can... :)
>
> Ironically, I suspect that it's for the same reason that East Germany has
> right up to the minute telephony services these days, while West German is
> still sucking hind tit:
>
> The big properties are, over all, likely to skew somewhat older in 
> building construction, and because of that, they're not built/wired
> for the internal transport; too much rebar in the walls blocking wifi
> and stuff like that.

In fact, many of the hotels that have solved this intelligently have simply
placed DSLAMs in the phone room and run DSL to each room with
a relatively inexpensive (especially when you buy 500 of them at a time)
DSL modem in each room. Some also have wifi, some have wifi in the room
from the DSL modem, but in most cases, these have been among the
best functioning solutions in some of the larger properties.

> Plus they have more corporate inertia in actually getting it done.

Hyatt does a consistently better job of this than Hilton in my experience.
Same with Motel 6.

I would expect them to have roughly equivalent corporate inertia.


> Or, they just don't care.  They don't have to.  They're... oh, never mind.

I think this is the larger factor, yes.

Owen