Best and Worst Hotels For WiFi

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[Face-to-Face] The best hotels offer free WiFi in the lobbies and many of the properties also offer free WiFi in the guests rooms as well. The worst WiFi hotels are charging for WiFi either in the guest rooms or the lobbies. We can't rip on the worst hotels too much though, because at least they are offering WiFi access. There are some hotels that have yet to jump on the WiFi bandwagon and they really deserve to be called the worst.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Fred Sampson's Radio Weblog] Hotel WiFine: With the light rail line in between. The official conference hotels were the DoubleTree, two light-rail stops away, and the Hilton, several more stops away toward downtown Portland. Both considerably more expensive than the Red Lion. OK, the amenities were clearly fewer and lower quality at the RL, but the WiFi was free, as opposed to the $10 a day at the DoubleTree.

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Joho the Blog: Worst hotel wifi...ever: Now all this time I have been naively thinking that "wifi" rhymed with "hi-fi" - and it turns out that several contributors think it is related to "wifey". Since I work for an organization whose security gurus won't be letting us go wireless for several generations (i.e. maybe five or ten years), I guess I don't really have to know.

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[Smallbiztechnology.com - technology is a tool! Use it to GROW your business.] Online Fraud: When Online Keep It In Mind: for a lot of WiFi access around the city." And finally, hotels and hospitality services are getting...." Read the full article WiFi Urban Renewal: It Can Happen In Your City David Strom... that get Californians excited: free parking and free WiFi. Even better, how about places that offer free

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[Smallbiztechnology.com - technology is a tool! Use it to GROW your business.] Google: Making Storage A Commodity. Why It Will Win. Just Like Dell: WiFi Urban Renewal: It Can Happen In Your City David Strom, Editor-in-Chief, Tom's Guides...free parking and free WiFi. Even better, how about places that offer free parking within a few feet... Beach was one of the first to jump on this trend, and enabled free WiFi in a four-block area along Pine

[Totally The Best Thing Ever.] Best Convergence Phone.: actually it would be totally 100% inconvenient. maybe if they made a build-to-order option to replace the built-in GPS radio with a built-in wi-fi radio it would be better... as a GPS card would be more a special use card i wouldn't mind having to side-slot and plugged in only sometimes.

BizNetTravel Travel Log - Business and Executive Leisure Travel News: Our friend Rick sends us this story published in Incentive Mag last month, but who are we to complain since we left this weblog unattended for 10 days? Ah, the joys of business travel... But I disgress.

BizNetTravel Travel Log: Best WiFi Hotels (The Real Ones): ... Update: here's a follow-up post dedicated to the worst Wifi hotels. Olivier Travers | November 3, 2004 | Best / Worst | Permanent link ...

The Jeff Pulver Blog: No Wi-Fi, No Broadband, No Jeff!: The idea of surfing and working by the elevator seems to give me the impression I was getting the shaft from the hotel management who told me they used to have wired high speed in the rooms but the WiFi company removed those connections as part of the Wireless project.

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Posted at May 23, 2005 01:14 PM