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Hotels with Broadband?
dialupInHoboken asks: "I'd like to know if anyone has compiled a list (that they'd like to share) of hotels in metropolitan areas that offer broadband connections, hard-wired or wireless, and how much the service costs per day, etc. I've found a few hotels that offer it, but don't advertise it, or really know that much about what they're offering. A comprehensive list would be something of value to us bandwidth-crazed individuals." There was an Ask Slashdot about this, early last year. Now that "broadband" is a marketable buzzword for businesses, have more hotels caught on?
I reciently attended E3 down in the LA area, and stayed at the Wyndam Gardens hotel, in Commerce...
All Wyndham hotels offer broadband internet access through Waypoint's network, at $9.95 a day, or for free if you sign up to become a waypoint member (it's free at the hotels)...
They do implore a Linux box that does MAC-based access control, so switching NICs/MAC addresses or using more than one computer will result in a seperate charge per system. Hope this helps...
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I know you are probably talking about the US, but here is a searchable list of hotels and other places in Sweden that are covered by 802.11b Internet (Telia Homerun).
I recently stayed at both Swissotel in Boston and Sutton Place in Toronto. Both offered a web-tv style internet service for about $10 per day.
Although I'm sure this is probably fine for some people, most slashdot-types would probably get irritated pretty fast with this kind of connection. So if you ask the hotel about what kind of internet access they have, and they say "yes we have high speed internet access in every room", they might mean this webtv crap. They might also mean there is a data port on the phone in the room. woo hoo.
If any hotel-types are reading this: Personally I'd much rather have 802.11 and/or an ethernet jack in the wall.
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From the geektools website, check out the GeekTels section. They have over 2000 listings for the USA.
In parts of the US, there is the STSN service. They provide a hotel locator on their website.
Wayport also has national (and international) maps of participating hotels
Some other online lists of providers can be found here, here, and here.
Of course, you want to make sure that if you invest in a wireless card it will be compatible with the hotels you most frequently stay at.
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