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Bad Coffee, bad wifi at Hilton Shanghai

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December 9, 2004 at 7:17 AM | by | Comments (2)

Isn't the idiom all the tea in China? Well I guess there is a reason folks don't say "all the coffee in China".

Oh yeah, and it sounds like this five star hotel is using rabbit ears on their wireless router. Suppose we should be glad they offer free wifi at all, but wasn't there a survey that said no wifi is better than bad wifi?

In any event, here is what a recent Hilton Shanghai guest had to say about the place:

The current Hilton in Shanghai is one of the oldest five-star hotels in the city, so my expectations were pretty low when I tried to do some blogging on a WTO-conference today. Amazingly enough the conference room offered wifi. It was a poor one, inter-touch, since the signal was so weak it often fell away. It was for free and to be honest, I would never have paid for such a lousy service. But always nice to check the RSS-reader and email when the speakers are too boring. The coffee really sucked: so much for a five-star treatment.

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bad wifi

I'm an addict to the internet, so I perfer a bad shot over not shot at all :-)

Wifi-services for visitors who do not stay in a hotel in China are mostly lacking, overly expensive, of a bad quality (like a 2-hour window is not enough for a 2-day conference) or lacking a decent signal.

FonsTuinstra on December 10, 2004 at 12:39 AM #Permalink

Real bad WiFi

Am staying at the Hilton Shanghai these few days.  They seriously need a face lift to all their guest rooms and meeting rooms AND change their ISP.  Was told the wireless was not free and that I had to buy a InterTouch prepaid card to access internet in the public areas.  The thing is I was not even able to access the page to allow me to input the card username and password.  Error message says the port in my computer does not work with InterTouch!  
Chatterbug on December 17, 2008 at 5:15 AM #Permalink

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