Hotel Web Access
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I enjoyed a 10 day trip to Florida over New Years. Michigan is my home so it was a relief to vacation where it is warm. That said, nothing takes me from that wonderful fuzzy vacation happiness to absolute rage quite as quickly as hotel internet access. The computers were burdened with this ridiculous nanny software that was so restrictive and slow it is beyond me how it could be considered a service. I absolutely detest software used to lock down a computer this way. If it worked by only reducing the speed of the machine to 'glacial' that would be one thing but to offer the hope of one day seeing a webpage but never really quite getting there is unforgivable. The software took 2 minutes to load The Drudge Report. Regardless of how you feel about Matt Drudge the fact of the matter is there are few websites as ridiculously simple and fast loading as his site. Any software that reduces that to a crawl has to really work at failing. The only thing slower was rebooting the machine - I wanted so bad to whip out a Windows DVD and do a complete wipe of the machine right there in the lobby. Why anyone would load up a computer with such awful software is beyond me. I wanted to cry for what the huge burdern the machine was suffering. Advice for the Hotel: 1: If it has to be that bad then don't offer the service at all. It's like opening a restaurant and serving road kill. 2: Don't buy software from clowns who sell this 'lock down' service. The people who write that software should be hunted for sport - and that's me being nice because if I wanted to be cruel I'd make them use their own shit. 3: If you blow 200 million on a hotel spend some coin on getting a good internet service or partner with other hotels and open an internet cafe with a knowlegedable staff. Direct traffic from several hotels to that location. Allow a hotel stay to grant you 1/2hr. of free time per day. 4: Use Chromebooks if you have to make things more secure - or virtual machines/wipe the OS every night - whatever. Sheesh.
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I enjoyed a 10 day trip to Florida over New Years. Michigan is my home so it was a relief to vacation where it is warm. That said, nothing takes me from that wonderful fuzzy vacation happiness to absolute rage quite as quickly as hotel internet access. The computers were burdened with this ridiculous nanny software that was so restrictive and slow it is beyond me how it could be considered a service. I absolutely detest software used to lock down a computer this way. If it worked by only reducing the speed of the machine to 'glacial' that would be one thing but to offer the hope of one day seeing a webpage but never really quite getting there is unforgivable. The software took 2 minutes to load The Drudge Report. Regardless of how you feel about Matt Drudge the fact of the matter is there are few websites as ridiculously simple and fast loading as his site. Any software that reduces that to a crawl has to really work at failing. The only thing slower was rebooting the machine - I wanted so bad to whip out a Windows DVD and do a complete wipe of the machine right there in the lobby. Why anyone would load up a computer with such awful software is beyond me. I wanted to cry for what the huge burdern the machine was suffering. Advice for the Hotel: 1: If it has to be that bad then don't offer the service at all. It's like opening a restaurant and serving road kill. 2: Don't buy software from clowns who sell this 'lock down' service. The people who write that software should be hunted for sport - and that's me being nice because if I wanted to be cruel I'd make them use their own shit. 3: If you blow 200 million on a hotel spend some coin on getting a good internet service or partner with other hotels and open an internet cafe with a knowlegedable staff. Direct traffic from several hotels to that location. Allow a hotel stay to grant you 1/2hr. of free time per day. 4: Use Chromebooks if you have to make things more secure - or virtual machines/wipe the OS every night - whatever. Sheesh.
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I enjoyed a 10 day trip to Florida over New Years. Michigan is my home so it was a relief to vacation where it is warm. That said, nothing takes me from that wonderful fuzzy vacation happiness to absolute rage quite as quickly as hotel internet access. The computers were burdened with this ridiculous nanny software that was so restrictive and slow it is beyond me how it could be considered a service. I absolutely detest software used to lock down a computer this way. If it worked by only reducing the speed of the machine to 'glacial' that would be one thing but to offer the hope of one day seeing a webpage but never really quite getting there is unforgivable. The software took 2 minutes to load The Drudge Report. Regardless of how you feel about Matt Drudge the fact of the matter is there are few websites as ridiculously simple and fast loading as his site. Any software that reduces that to a crawl has to really work at failing. The only thing slower was rebooting the machine - I wanted so bad to whip out a Windows DVD and do a complete wipe of the machine right there in the lobby. Why anyone would load up a computer with such awful software is beyond me. I wanted to cry for what the huge burdern the machine was suffering. Advice for the Hotel: 1: If it has to be that bad then don't offer the service at all. It's like opening a restaurant and serving road kill. 2: Don't buy software from clowns who sell this 'lock down' service. The people who write that software should be hunted for sport - and that's me being nice because if I wanted to be cruel I'd make them use their own shit. 3: If you blow 200 million on a hotel spend some coin on getting a good internet service or partner with other hotels and open an internet cafe with a knowlegedable staff. Direct traffic from several hotels to that location. Allow a hotel stay to grant you 1/2hr. of free time per day. 4: Use Chromebooks if you have to make things more secure - or virtual machines/wipe the OS every night - whatever. Sheesh.
It's not even that the lobby service is usually bad, it's when they want to charge you for wireless access in the room! Ridiculous.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
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It's not even that the lobby service is usually bad, it's when they want to charge you for wireless access in the room! Ridiculous.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
mark merrens wrote:
it's when they want to charge you for wireless access in the room!
They'd charge you for the air in the room if they could find a way of metering it...
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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I enjoyed a 10 day trip to Florida over New Years. Michigan is my home so it was a relief to vacation where it is warm. That said, nothing takes me from that wonderful fuzzy vacation happiness to absolute rage quite as quickly as hotel internet access. The computers were burdened with this ridiculous nanny software that was so restrictive and slow it is beyond me how it could be considered a service. I absolutely detest software used to lock down a computer this way. If it worked by only reducing the speed of the machine to 'glacial' that would be one thing but to offer the hope of one day seeing a webpage but never really quite getting there is unforgivable. The software took 2 minutes to load The Drudge Report. Regardless of how you feel about Matt Drudge the fact of the matter is there are few websites as ridiculously simple and fast loading as his site. Any software that reduces that to a crawl has to really work at failing. The only thing slower was rebooting the machine - I wanted so bad to whip out a Windows DVD and do a complete wipe of the machine right there in the lobby. Why anyone would load up a computer with such awful software is beyond me. I wanted to cry for what the huge burdern the machine was suffering. Advice for the Hotel: 1: If it has to be that bad then don't offer the service at all. It's like opening a restaurant and serving road kill. 2: Don't buy software from clowns who sell this 'lock down' service. The people who write that software should be hunted for sport - and that's me being nice because if I wanted to be cruel I'd make them use their own shit. 3: If you blow 200 million on a hotel spend some coin on getting a good internet service or partner with other hotels and open an internet cafe with a knowlegedable staff. Direct traffic from several hotels to that location. Allow a hotel stay to grant you 1/2hr. of free time per day. 4: Use Chromebooks if you have to make things more secure - or virtual machines/wipe the OS every night - whatever. Sheesh.
MehGerbil wrote:
If it has to be that bad then don't offer the service at all. It's like opening a restaurant and serving road kill.
What is wrong with road kill? :)
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MehGerbil wrote:
If it has to be that bad then don't offer the service at all. It's like opening a restaurant and serving road kill.
What is wrong with road kill? :)
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I enjoyed a 10 day trip to Florida over New Years. Michigan is my home so it was a relief to vacation where it is warm. That said, nothing takes me from that wonderful fuzzy vacation happiness to absolute rage quite as quickly as hotel internet access. The computers were burdened with this ridiculous nanny software that was so restrictive and slow it is beyond me how it could be considered a service. I absolutely detest software used to lock down a computer this way. If it worked by only reducing the speed of the machine to 'glacial' that would be one thing but to offer the hope of one day seeing a webpage but never really quite getting there is unforgivable. The software took 2 minutes to load The Drudge Report. Regardless of how you feel about Matt Drudge the fact of the matter is there are few websites as ridiculously simple and fast loading as his site. Any software that reduces that to a crawl has to really work at failing. The only thing slower was rebooting the machine - I wanted so bad to whip out a Windows DVD and do a complete wipe of the machine right there in the lobby. Why anyone would load up a computer with such awful software is beyond me. I wanted to cry for what the huge burdern the machine was suffering. Advice for the Hotel: 1: If it has to be that bad then don't offer the service at all. It's like opening a restaurant and serving road kill. 2: Don't buy software from clowns who sell this 'lock down' service. The people who write that software should be hunted for sport - and that's me being nice because if I wanted to be cruel I'd make them use their own shit. 3: If you blow 200 million on a hotel spend some coin on getting a good internet service or partner with other hotels and open an internet cafe with a knowlegedable staff. Direct traffic from several hotels to that location. Allow a hotel stay to grant you 1/2hr. of free time per day. 4: Use Chromebooks if you have to make things more secure - or virtual machines/wipe the OS every night - whatever. Sheesh.
I hope you copied the hotel in on this, otherwise - especially without naming and shaming, its a fart in the wind.
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mark merrens wrote:
it's when they want to charge you for wireless access in the room!
They'd charge you for the air in the room if they could find a way of metering it...
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
Plus 3% for sleeping with the window shut.....
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I enjoyed a 10 day trip to Florida over New Years. Michigan is my home so it was a relief to vacation where it is warm. That said, nothing takes me from that wonderful fuzzy vacation happiness to absolute rage quite as quickly as hotel internet access. The computers were burdened with this ridiculous nanny software that was so restrictive and slow it is beyond me how it could be considered a service. I absolutely detest software used to lock down a computer this way. If it worked by only reducing the speed of the machine to 'glacial' that would be one thing but to offer the hope of one day seeing a webpage but never really quite getting there is unforgivable. The software took 2 minutes to load The Drudge Report. Regardless of how you feel about Matt Drudge the fact of the matter is there are few websites as ridiculously simple and fast loading as his site. Any software that reduces that to a crawl has to really work at failing. The only thing slower was rebooting the machine - I wanted so bad to whip out a Windows DVD and do a complete wipe of the machine right there in the lobby. Why anyone would load up a computer with such awful software is beyond me. I wanted to cry for what the huge burdern the machine was suffering. Advice for the Hotel: 1: If it has to be that bad then don't offer the service at all. It's like opening a restaurant and serving road kill. 2: Don't buy software from clowns who sell this 'lock down' service. The people who write that software should be hunted for sport - and that's me being nice because if I wanted to be cruel I'd make them use their own shit. 3: If you blow 200 million on a hotel spend some coin on getting a good internet service or partner with other hotels and open an internet cafe with a knowlegedable staff. Direct traffic from several hotels to that location. Allow a hotel stay to grant you 1/2hr. of free time per day. 4: Use Chromebooks if you have to make things more secure - or virtual machines/wipe the OS every night - whatever. Sheesh.
Skipping the part about the machines available for use at the hotel, I find it hilarious the manner in which the hotel industry has set up the wifi availability. A. Low-end to mid-level hotels and chains tend to offer decent wireless service for free. It's not the best, but it works, for no charge. B. High-end and "executive" hotels seem to offer a really bad, tiered paid wifi service. The least expensive tier performs horribly, but for a non-negligible additional fee, you can "upgrade" to a faster connection. No doubt driven by the idea that the upper-end operations cater to clientele using corporate expense accounts. They throttle down the lowest tier to a level which your average business user will find unacceptable, in the hope they will charge the upgrade to the room "on the company." This is a deplorable practice.
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Skipping the part about the machines available for use at the hotel, I find it hilarious the manner in which the hotel industry has set up the wifi availability. A. Low-end to mid-level hotels and chains tend to offer decent wireless service for free. It's not the best, but it works, for no charge. B. High-end and "executive" hotels seem to offer a really bad, tiered paid wifi service. The least expensive tier performs horribly, but for a non-negligible additional fee, you can "upgrade" to a faster connection. No doubt driven by the idea that the upper-end operations cater to clientele using corporate expense accounts. They throttle down the lowest tier to a level which your average business user will find unacceptable, in the hope they will charge the upgrade to the room "on the company." This is a deplorable practice.
This will go the same way that hotel phone service went. Everyone I know is moving to a wireless hotspot on their phone. Very soon anyone going into any Hotel will just be bringing their own service with them. I know I do. I do not want to deal with the Hotel Service for my Internets. This is the same thing that was going on in the 90's when Hotel were charging an extreme amount of money for phone calls. Sometimes as much as a buck a minute for long distance. So most people get Cell Phones with free long distance included. Next thing you know. The Hotels got the message and don't do that anymore. Or people just completely ignore the phone in the room except to call the front desk. Won't be long people the world changes and corporations will not keep up.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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This will go the same way that hotel phone service went. Everyone I know is moving to a wireless hotspot on their phone. Very soon anyone going into any Hotel will just be bringing their own service with them. I know I do. I do not want to deal with the Hotel Service for my Internets. This is the same thing that was going on in the 90's when Hotel were charging an extreme amount of money for phone calls. Sometimes as much as a buck a minute for long distance. So most people get Cell Phones with free long distance included. Next thing you know. The Hotels got the message and don't do that anymore. Or people just completely ignore the phone in the room except to call the front desk. Won't be long people the world changes and corporations will not keep up.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
rnbergren wrote:
Sometimes as much as a buck a minute ...
Some still do. In fact, I think many, if not most.
rnbergren wrote:
Won't be long people the world changes and corporations will not keep up.
For some reason, the extinction of dinosaurs comes to my mind ...
