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Blogger Discovers What We've Been Saying All Along

Duncan Davidson has run down the gamut of hotel WiFi and there's no surprise here: "Spendy" hotels charge you too much for WiFi that doesn't work, while cheap motels manage to get free WiFi in their rooms without a problem.

He doesn't say anything that we haven't already said, but maybe you will listen to one of your peers more than us:

I've been noticing a trend lately when it comes to hotel Internet access. The spendy hotels let you on to their network after negotiating a captive portal and fleecing you for $10-$15. Sometimes more, if you're staying at a posh place. And once you're on, there's always something that doesn't work right through the captive portal. That is, if you get on....

On the other hand, the mid-tier hotels have figured out that free Internet is as much a selling point as having lights, telephone, and HBO. It's free, in cost at least....

Tonight, I'm at a cheap motel. It's clean. And the heater is just starting to do it's magic. But boy howdy, I've got free WiFi and it's simple. I opened up my laptop and boom, I'm on. No captive portal. No port redirection. Zippo.

[Photo: Corypina]

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