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Gild Hall Now Charging $10 for Practically Dial-Up Internet Speeds

Yikes. We stumbled upon this shot on Flickr and were not pleased to lay our eyes upon it — though we were grateful that our own WiFi connections were, um, at least fast enough to load Flickr in a timely fashion.

This is a screenshot from guest evoque, who apparently stayed at Gild Hall and had to fork over a 10-er in order to connect to the WiFi network. At a speed of 512k. Slow. Lame. Boo. The caption on the shot reads:

$10/day for a blazing 512k/512k WiFi connection — it's more Internet side road than Internet superhighway.

And we all know that people who are down with clever wordplay deserve faster WiFi, right? Regardless, this could have been forgivable — except that we haven't forgotten that Thompson Hotels' WiFi used to be totally free, and they just started charging for it this year. Ugh. If you're going to make us pay for this stuff, at least give us a decent connection to work with.

[Photo: Evoque]