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ones expects reliable internet access
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 09:43 pmI'm in Florida this week at a customer site for meetings. My hotel room is very nice. It is being charged to the customer, at the "special" rate of $119/night (I wonder how high the regular rate is). The meeting today at the customer's office went fine. Now I'm back at the hotel trying to connect to my work VPN, and the hotel internet connection is so slow that I haven't been able to connect. The speed is currently about 23 kbps - slower than a slow dial-up connection. (Hmmm, I wonder if my cell-phone's internet speed might even be faster than that...?) The front desk said it is due to them having a "full house".
It's disappointing to have a nice fancy hotel room - without a bad smell in the air (that's the most important thing); with real glass drinking glasses instead of disposable plastic ones; with little accent lights and nice wood furnishings; with a thin-screen TV; with a nice clean rug; with a nice desk - but without good internet access.
I've got work to do to prepare for one of tomorrow's meetings, but I'm not able to do it because of this.
ETA: I tested my cell-phone's internet speed, and it got 19.1 kbps. Now I have the hotel room's window open and am hearing an unusual calling sound. I wonder what kind of animal is making it. At lunch-time at the customer's office, I asked if there were benches outside, and they said yes, out back by the pond, but to watch out for the alligator that lives in the pond!
It's disappointing to have a nice fancy hotel room - without a bad smell in the air (that's the most important thing); with real glass drinking glasses instead of disposable plastic ones; with little accent lights and nice wood furnishings; with a thin-screen TV; with a nice clean rug; with a nice desk - but without good internet access.
I've got work to do to prepare for one of tomorrow's meetings, but I'm not able to do it because of this.
ETA: I tested my cell-phone's internet speed, and it got 19.1 kbps. Now I have the hotel room's window open and am hearing an unusual calling sound. I wonder what kind of animal is making it. At lunch-time at the customer's office, I asked if there were benches outside, and they said yes, out back by the pond, but to watch out for the alligator that lives in the pond!