Dirty Rotten Weak Hotel Internet
Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this January 23rd, 2007 6:53 am
Alexander’s laws of Hotels is upheld- the bigger, the more expensive the hotel, the more troublesome and weak is the internet connectivity. Ditto for the CNN Omni.
It seems as though they throttle upload speeds to selected sites- I ftp-ed a 25 Mb audio file in 2.5 minutes, but uploads to flickr get to 68k and stop dead. I can post to our NMC WordPress sites, yet going to a WordPress site hosted here n Dreamhost never completes the post. What kind of network throttles uploads? It’s the same in my room as in the lobby.
I’ve gone downstairs to the EDUCAUSE conference wireless, which works fine.
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January 23rd, 2007 at 9:40 am
so much for net neutrality…
January 23rd, 2007 at 10:00 am
CNN Omni is bad? Wasn’t CNN owned by Ted Turner who, at one point, owned AOL-Time-Warner? Makes me glad I dumped AOL back in the early 90s.
January 23rd, 2007 at 2:41 pm
I’d guess Ted has better net connections than the former resident of room 713.
January 25th, 2007 at 6:20 am
I had a similar experience. Also fun to get dropped and re-added whenever I moved a room.
-Bryan, known for a law like a medical doctor famous for a disease