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Westin Century Plaza: Broadband Internet fails under flood of geeks

Where: 2025 Avenue of the Stars [map], Los Angeles, ca, United States, 90067

August 6, 2004 at 6:33 AM | 0 Comments

PC Mag scribe Lance Ulanoff stays at the swank Westin Century Plaza Hotel and Spa on the Westside in LA during an industry event and the hotel's broadband network yacks under the pressure.

Couple quotes from the piece:

My advice to the Marriotts, Hyatts, Westins, MGM Grands, and others is that if you plan on advertising broadband access, build it as if every single room will be using it at the same time (and make sure to throw in ubiquitous Wi-Fi capabilities, too).

If you don't offer all that, then you really don't have a right to advertise that you're "broadband-ready."

Totally agree.  Someday these hotels will get the message:

Reliable Internet is very important to travelers

Or they will loose more and more business over this issue.