Got your attention with that headline, didn’t I? Andy Abramson wants to write a Hotel Broadband Experience blog to highlight the hotels that offer fast broadband and stomp on the ones who hire incompetent outside firms to deliver “broadband” (this term has been abused by everyone who calls their service “high speed”, i.e. anything over 144 Kbps). Rodrigo Sepulveda, CEO of vpod.tv, complained recently about the slow broadband service in US hotels.
I am willing to contribute my own reviews. For me, good service means free Wi-Fi that delivers in excess of 2 Mbps downstream and 1 Mbps upstream bandwidth consistently. I’m afraid most hotels will fall into the barely adequate category.
Because I travel a lot, there’s nothing I appreciate more than fast, free Wi-Fi. They don’t bill me for electricity and water, why bill me for Wi-Fi? The hassle of going through those nasty log-on screens makes my blood boil. In Europe, many hotels charge two to three times what US hotels charge for broadband access.
UPDATE: Andy and I began posting our hotel Wi-Fi reviews on his blog, Working Anywhere.
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