Be careful where you write

[Handley_Page]

It seems that some hotels and such charge fees to use their personal WiFi.
Marriot have just been fined $600k for deliberate jamming.

Marriott has been fined $600,000 by the FCC for paralyzing guests' personal Wi-Fi hotspots, forcing them to use the hotel giant's expensive network instead.

The US watchdog today said the Marriott Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, Tennessee, used monitoring equipment to illegally boot hotel and convention center guests off their own networks, which were typically smartphone hotspots.

Meanwhile, Marriott managers encouraged everyone to connect to the hotel's Wi-Fi network, which cost from $250 to $1,000 to access.


Fuller details here.

 

[jomar]

I don't get that. Every hotel I've stayed in the past ten years or so has free wifi.

 

[49greg]

About 5 or 6 years ago I stayed at a Hilton in Omaha, it didn't have free wifi, actually I'm not sure they had wifi at all. They seemed insulted that I asked.

Altogether the hotel just wasn't that good. Our reservation stated that it was to be a non-smoking room. They had overbooked and we got a smoking room. They wouldn't recommend another hotel, much less find and book a room in one - like Holiday Inn used to. Their whole attitude was that "We are HILTON you should be glad that we let you stay here at all." There was a convention or two in town and so we stayed there after they did some kind of smoke amelioration thing.

One bright spot was the restaurant. Very good. The breakfast buffet featured a chef who did your eggs to perfection - no digging scrambled eggs out of a vat. At supper we had the best made from scratch tomato soup I've ever had.

The room sucked. The staff, other than in the restaurant, were dismissive and snooty to the guests. Not just us either, other people from the convention my wife attended also commented on them.

And no free wifi. On the way there and home we stopped at a "Best Western": non smoking room - check. Better beds - check, Free Wifi - check. No restaurant though.

 

[StrangeLife]

This is interesting because WIFI runs in unregulated bands where you can normally transmit anything you like. RF welding machines, garage openers, RC toys and all kind of shit transmits in these bands all the time.

Apparently it's the deliberateness of The Marriott to do specific sabotage that caused the FCC to get involved, despite the fact that it took place in an unlicensed band.

Thanks - quite enlightening....

 

[Bramblethorn]

I have to say, jamming my net connection would probably double my writing speed.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I have to say, jamming my net connection would probably double my writing speed.

Doh! That's why I'm not writing as much! Crap!

Every hotel I have stayed at has had free WiFi. Prior to WiFi they had a hardwire connection in each room. Always had a Cat5 cable in my laptop bag.

The only time I had to pay anything was a deposit for a bridge device as my company laptop didn't have built in WiFi. This was when WiFi was just starting to be the way for hotels/motels to allow their clientele connect to the internet.

 

[redzinger]

I have to say, jamming my net connection would probably double my writing speed.

I don't think it would double mine, it would quintuple it.

Some days I almost wish I didn't have wireless, just to get more done.

 

[humantouch]

You would think that a world class hotel like Marriott would have free internet. Then on top of it they install blockers...are they sure it wasn't Comcast that put them up to it?

Even when I was in Thailand in August I had free wifi in a $15 per night hotel.

 

[sr71plt]

Most Marriotts do have free Internet (but not complimentary breakfasts). It's the more expensive hotels that charge you for every little extra thing. So, the upscale Marriotts are likely to do that. Best to check out the specific hotel on the Internet before booking--and don't look just for "Internet available." Look for "free" Wifi (which, of course, isn't free. You paid for it somehow).

 

[PervOtaku]

Meanwhile, Marriott managers encouraged everyone to connect to the hotel's Wi-Fi network, which cost from $250 to $1,000 to access.

Bullshit. Even hotels that charge for wifi only hit you for $10 a day.

 

[sr71plt]

Yeah, I think you'd need to be a real dumb bunny to sign up for a night Internet at $250 or more.

 

[JKendallDane]

$250 to connect to the internet isn't completely unheard of...about what you pay for four to six hours of access on most cruise ships.

(unless you buy one of their "package deals" at about 49 cents a minute )

 

[sr71plt]

$250 to connect to the internet isn't completely unheard of...about what you pay for four to six hours of access on most cruise ships.

(unless you buy one of their "package deals" at about 49 cents a minute )

You go on the wrong cruise lines. I go twice a year and have never paid that much. (You'd be rather dumb to keep the Internet open for six hours running on a cruise ship on the high seas anyway. Of course that would be expensive. It would be very expensive to make the connection available to you. This wouldn't be a case of price gouging.)

 

[BuckyDuckman]

Most Marriotts do have free Internet (but not complimentary breakfasts). It's the more expensive hotels that charge you for every little extra thing. So, the upscale Marriotts are likely to do that. Best to check out the specific hotel on the Internet before booking--and don't look just for "Internet available." Look for "free" Wifi (which, of course, isn't free. You paid for it somehow).

I travel a lot with my job and I have to concur with that statement. It does feel as if the higher end the hotel, the more likely they are to charge for things like internet access.

Many hotels will advertise "free wi-fi" until you read the fine print and discover it's only free in common areas, like the lobby. Inside your room? Get ready to pony up for it.

Another feature I've seen appearing is higher speed access, for an additional price. I've seen this scam in hotels where access was free, but "premium" access was available for a price. And I've seen it were wifi wasn't free - and, after charging you for any kind of access, you're offered "premium" speed access for an even higher fee.

It's ironic, but the general rule of thumb seems to be, the higher end the hotel, the more likely they are to charge for internet. Bastards.

 

[PervOtaku]

It's ironic, but the general rule of thumb seems to be, the higher end the hotel, the more likely they are to charge for internet. Bastards.

Seems to be true of a lot of things. High end hotels have restaurants. Smaller, cheaper hotels often have free continental breakfast (some better than others).

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I was measuring a Mariot the other week. Hated that building...

And the Four seasons charged for Wifi as well, but we got it for free because it was a work expense and the hotel was comping our rooms (though not our food, weird).

 

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The hotels I've stayed in till date gave me free to their wi-fi. You just had to ask for the password at the reception.