Yeah but take into account that 25Mbps connection is shared among dozens to hundreds if not thousands of guests, worst still if the hotel is largely reliant on the common and older 2.4GHz channel standard (which most hotel and people still do) rather than the newer, faster and less saturated 5Ghz frequency standard. This would make the radio frequency in the premise to be super saturated and bad especially for mobile devices like smartphones or tablets.
DarkZerol They point was that the 25Mbps Hotel Wifi, counting all people connected etc, is still 10 times faster than the WiFi I have at home, and I have a 2000€ Gaming Pc, and I can’t play a single online game, because life sucks.
As a hotel receptionist, I'm glad you made this video ! I should show this to my boss who refuses to upgrade our equipment (It's exactly as you described...!)
I replaced one of those abysmal contract systems in a 70 room hotel with Ubiquiti Unifi AP's and it kicks arse. Front desk would receive tons of hate about the old wifi. Now no monthly maintenance fees for the hotel owner and no random firmware upgrades from the outside vendor who wouldn't alert anyone. And now were considering putting in smart TV's to give guest more choices w/o the need to run more cat6 cables. Makes guests majorly happy...emps too.
i normally just use my laptop to generate a wifi signal using the Ethernet connection. works really well, and bc i always take my laptop with me when i travel i don't need to buy a standalone router.
whenever we stay in hotels, we either don't have problems with the internet, or we just use our phones and cast mobile hotspots. Funnily enough though, whenever we tend to stay at motels, there tends to be fairly up to date network equipment just sitting in the bottom of the nightstand, which almost always seem to be dual band ac routers.
It varies wildly, and this video does a good job of covering why. I still remember circa 2016 when I got 40mb/s in the free WiFI from a Marriott Hotel. That was pretty sweet, especially since back then most universities and places I went to capped you at 10mb/s or lower. It's funny nowadays it's not unusual to have 100+mb/s.
the best internet I've ever seen at a hotel was in Ft. Lauderdale. I don't remember the name of the hotel, but it had a pool a few stories up and it was right next to the beach. I went there for spring break and wished I brought my laptop because I could've streamed at 1080p with no buffering. it was AWESOME. I don't think you even had to pay for it!
Speaking from personal experience as one who worked as an IT at a hotel I would also point out that not every hotel has access to a fast infrastructure on the provider side of things. Hotels in European city centers especially UNESCO heritage sites are sometimes limited to either VDSL or even ADSL line connection or crowded and often unreliable over the air internet (again due old infrastructure in place and many buildings are of similar height that may block LOS often required for OTA Internet and local architecture preservation societies screaming bloody murder just at an idea of putting a metal stick to the roof for better internet not to mention cutting into walls to replace phone wiring). The phone line cables can be as old as interwar period (Yes many phone line cables laid in between 1900s-1939 are still in place in many European cities) an you can imagine how great that is. Even 30 year old phone lines can introduce a serious bottlenecks in the transfer speed not to mention switch stations can be generations behind current standard. That are just my two bits.
I see an example of the network infrastructure hotels could have any time I go to my dorm. There, they actually have incentive to put routers every few feet and have big bandwidth.
I worked wifi support for a chain of hotels, and some hotels had like 10mbs for the whole hotel, even if they had like 50 rooms, and the actual wifi equipment a lot of them were using could be over a decade old.
If you’re on vacation, you shouldn’t need fast hotel wifi. Get out. Enjoy your destination. Don’t stay in the hotel. It’s boring there. Business travelers, I have no words of wisdom. But a router or just plug your computer into the LAN and don’t allow your device to be discoverable
My two cents on the Topic. Hotels started to notice that people would stay in their rooms and hog bandwidth. Hotels are there to provide a bed to sleep in, a full bathroom to use, a TV to watch, a landline to make/receive calls, free breakfast, a desk for your fullscreen device, and enough bandwidth to check email, FaceBook, Twitter, and basic web browsing. Only recently they've started offering dedicated bandwidth for things like Netflix, etc. Free tips for hotel internet. 1. VPNs are a must for staying secure at a hotel. 2. Offline media on the pocket or fullscreen device of your choice. 3. Try not to download or upload large files wherever you are and how long your away from a fast connection.
great video, we own a hotel and being a techie our hotel has fantastic wifi (now), when we purchased it a few years ago every AP was just Linksys WRT54g's with a single DSL connection with each AP having its own SSID - we have since upgraded to a dedicated fiber line and use Ubiquiti Unifi APs, Managed Switches and a micro PC gateway running pfsense etc etc...i would say (at least Choice brand hotels) have moved Wifi to a main focus, for example, you are required to have X/Xmbps/each hotel room you have and this number increases yearly and you fail your inspections if your Wifi is not up to snuff so +1 for hotel brands finally figuring this one out
Why don't hotels just give every room a personal WiFi router? That comes with Ethernet AND great connection. I use my phone with 2GB of data to make a personal hotspot.
One time I had really slow internet at the hotel and I put the Same password for the business WiFi and my connection was so good. And one time they had WiFi for every room
There is also the case of the provider access speed provided, which is a MAJOR factor. It was touched on, but you'd actually be SURPRISED at how many hotels run their Wi-Fi off of a SINGLE T1 connection. Source: I've been with a major telecommunications provider for 14 years...
I've just been travelling around Europe for the past 3 weeks. I've noticed some of the Hotels limited the connection to around 2Mbps. Something ibis do is Free Wifi is around 2Mbps, but you can pay and the speed is dramatically faster. I stayed at an ibis in Krakow a few years ago, they must have been on fibre as I uploaded a video to Facebook that must have been several hundred MB's, under a minute it was uploaded
I don't drink soda, I normally bring my homemade mini soap packets and I don't trust the cleaning methods of pretty much everything tangible in the hotel room...But yeah it's a real "treat".. .
As a former employee of iBahn most of what is suggested is true. What isn't discussed is the circuits the hotels have. We had La Quinta's that had a 786k circuits. Most Marriotts, Farifield Inn, StayBridge and TownPlace Suites have/had 2-3 bundled T1s. When I was downsized in 2012 we were using cable connections as a primary and a T1 for backup. The big named hotels with lots of rooms and conventions spaces usually run 2 DS3's for the connection. Maybe they have changed since then but hotels are cheap on how much they spend or locked into for the contracts.
A lot of Hotels will also cap the speed for the free WiFi, encouraging you to spend money on a faster package. As a side note, when I stayed in NY an the One UN, it had great WiFi, it was like 60Mb down and 90Mb up, totally free and there were a plethora of access points throughout the hotel.
I actually got a really good resort in Turkey that had individual WiFi routers hard wired into every room, all the pools and trees and even on the beach!
The other thing I find sometimes helps (particularly in highly-congested scenarios) is if your wi-fi device allows it, turn down the transmit speed. I think this makes the signal more robust and easier for the router to receive.
Good wifi is a huge USP for many hotels these days. I manage IT for medium to large hotels (100 to 400 rooms), all guest networks have at least a 1Gb uncontended leased line, each device gets limited to 5-20Mb/s symmetric to prevent people from hogging the bandwidth. Even at 5Mb people comment how snappy web pages open, this is because it is uncontended (if you have ever used an uncontended line you'll know how web pages open as soon as you press the return key). Enough to stream an HD video from Netflix is what we say to clients. Hotels are well covered with one UAP-Lite per four bedrooms, and UAP Pro devices for larger spaces.
There's a story about some IEEE conference ~15 years ago where the attendants were so frustrated with their hotel WIFI that they asked the hotel management to let them set it up properly, because a lot of the problems were simply down to poorly placed and configured access points.
Pro tip: look for chain hotels, but smaller ones. Don't go to a Standard Marriot, go to a Marriot Courtyard, etc. The speed is much faster, because they literally use the same connections for all buildings. The speed is fast enough for at least 1440p UA-cam.
Quick tip! I 26 and I have spent a minimum of 6 years of my life in a hotel. This is mostly due to work shipping me from place to place, and in my younger life traveling with my mother for her work. Anyways, if you're finding that your connection just absolutely blows try reaching out to the front desk and asking them who the provider is. With hotel networks they usually delegate the TS and all that work either to the provider or a tech company to provide support. Now why might you do that? Well some things you can do to help is scan for the wireless networks and see what channel the strongest wifi connection is on. From there you can adjust it if it's on a really crowded space (would recommend scanning it yourself, as a network tech it can often take me forever to figure out what's on what channel). Why do you even need to do this you may ask? Well some routers/switches when powercycled can lose their channel settings which often gets them set back to "automatic" or some default channel like 1, 6, or 11. As a side note this can be difficult to trace what you're connecting to as they generally employ mesh network setups. If you're having a hard time get your MAC address and tell the rep, this can make things go a bit faster if you're having issues. Next thing you can have them check, especially for your gamers out there, is to see what the MTU setting is as that can create some issues. It's not something you often have to worry about, but it can make a difference. Next... Let them do what they can. Some of the routers/switches that are deployed aren't exactly magic and they're not always able to correct the problem due to limitations. That being said if you get buddy buddy with them then they might restrict access to certain WAPs by MAC address ;D. HINT HINT lol Failing all that do as the video says and try hooking up a SWITCH. Why a switch and not a router Cody?!?! Cause most people don't know what half of the things in it do, and certain routers *COUGH COUGH* have settings you can't change which make it a real pain in the butt. Get a wireless switch and you don't have to worry about jack. FAILING THAT... Try moving rooms. Seriously. Depending on the age of the hotel and the area you're staying at they may have just a single fiber optic connection (hopefully more), or they may have a couple pairs of bonded lines that they use. So what they will sometimes do when they have multiple connections is have completely separate networks. So you may be in a room close to a bunch of other people all using the same line, or WAP, so moving rooms to a less filled location can help a lot. This won't always help as newer technology that hotels use to supply VOD and other services are all delegated by the routers that they use which means they tend not to separate their networks with a whole bunch of individual networks because then they have to do a lot more work. Last trick and then I'm done. DONE I SAY. I'm also not gonna go super in depth because this doesn't always work, and doing it could be...iffy on the legal side lol. But wanna know how your tv gets all that sweet VOD content? MoCA. What is MoCA? It means data over coaxial cable!! Anywho, if you simply must get a router. If you get one that is MoCA compatible and do a bit of sniffing you can see what network settings you need and potentially get yourself a sweet direct connection to the router bypassing a bunch of the network. This last trick I only recommend for those of you who are network savvy and know what you're doing. Doesn't always work of course as there are easy ways to keep people from doing that...and certain configurations may be in place specifically and only for video which without access to change the router settings may just screw you over....But this is a hotel and it probably wasn't done correctly the first time anyways lol.
I think it would be a good idea to put some low volume background music on, as there is an audible drone when wearing headphones. Oh and I'm watching this over hotel WiFi 😁
Great video! Some of the issues i tend to find is that the hotels (at least int he UK) don't have large Internet pipes, which means if you share a 100Mbps link between 100 people as an example, that works out 1Mbps per person (theoretically). Sounds like enough right?! Well another issue is that most people tend to carry 2-3 wi-fi devices on them such as laptop, iphone, ipad ect. It is predicated by end of 2017 that each person will have 4-5 wi-fi devices on them. I don't expect all devices to be connected and transmitting simultaneously, however quite often i will be online with my laptop and updating my mobile apps at the same time. Using the example above, that would work out 0.5Mbps per device (assuming everyone is connecting two devices and bandwidth is being shared equally). Though some hotels do have a local server for Internet caching, so popular sites like BBC news, or the latest iOS update is stored locally rather than making the user go off to the Internet to download them - which can dramatically increase performance, as your getting LAN speeds rather than WAN speed. Last issue is that hotel wireless networks are not normally built to cope with high number of devices trying to access the network, and is normally built for coverage. This can mean you have a device on the far reach of the AP cell transmitting at 1Mbps, slowing down that cell network for others users who might be closer and thus getting a high connection speed. And since WLAN is built for coverage this means you can have too many clients trying to connect to the same AP thus over loading it. Rough rule of thumb for deploying a wireless network is 1AP per 20-30 devices for light Internet usage, 15-20 for medium usage or 10-15 for heavy traffic. (FYI alot of other factors can come into play that can alter the ratio, but this is normally used to give a baseline estimate.)
The thing with sucking hotel wifi , is that the best wifi signals are usually at cafes and bars . And thats when you dont need it because thats where you are interacting with others . Its your hotel room where its important
I work IT for a hotel management company. IHG is currently shifting their standard to a single 100 down 100 up connection for all the guest, BUT we throttle the connections at the wifi AP's to something about 5 down/1up. Most regional hotels are required to only have 50/50. In some cases, we do have 200/200 connections, but you'll only find those where the infrastructure already exist and again, we throttle the connection speeds. As well, all wired connections are being completely removed in most cases in all Marriot, IHG, Hilton, and Best Western hotels that we manage. Wired connections will only exist in meeting rooms. And, our equipment really isnt out of date. Every 3 years, we're changing out every AP in the building which is a LOT of fun especially when the AP is hidden above the toilet in the bathroom. I also get every single damn notification every time one of you downloads a torrent for your travel porn. Please, be considerate and download using a VPN
very informative. ive stayed at many hotels and worked at plenty. at some had decent wifi others didnt. i always wondered why and this explained it very good! thank you tech quickie!
I worked at a hotel for years. At our hotel, it was 1) because we had a contract with an internet provider in the next state over, so they never wanted to make a trip to our location to fix the wifi & 2) because the franchise owner was cheap & would not spend ANY money they didn't absolutely have to.
I have a travel size router that cost me less than $15USD and it is great. Some hotel does not offer wifi but can loan you a router for $30 that you can get back when you return it. It just makes things simpler.
I work in the hotel industry and just wanted to chime in. I just wanted to say that a lot of hotels don't neglect upgrading their equipment because of in-room movies. It's the cost of the equipment that is on the owners mind,. Many of these owners are not tech savy and running a hotel is already an expensive operation so wifi speeds tend to take a backseat to more pressing amenities like bed quality, breakfast offerings, shuttle services, etc. Many of the major brand hotels actually have companies that limit the download/upload at each room of the hotel individually in an attempt to keep congestion at a minimum.
On my last holiday i downloaded some GoT episodes via vpn from an one click hoster and unpacked and watched it on my mobile phone. Next door some guys were playing Age of Empires 2 on two desktop pcs, they brought to their hotel room. Couldn't join them, was there with my girlfriend. And it was 34 degrees in Spain. What a time to be alive.
Hey guys, something super fun to do at hotels, is bring all your phones, tablets, whatever you can find, and have them all upload as big a file as possible to a website that doesn't throttle uploads. You can knock out an entire network like this.
For those that are bored to watch the video: WiFi in hotel is slow because there are many people using the same wifi! Say you wanna watch some youtube videos but you are really forced to watch at 144p resolution!
Never thought I would see the day where 802.11N WiFi is considered slow as balls for hotels considering last time i used a hotel they weren't even using 802.11G
To recap. 1) Hotels businesses are more concern into more important things than just a speedy network infrastructure 2) Buy a Small portable wireless router or just stay away from slow WiFi hotel.
Short answer: the hotel owner doesn't know anything about tech and he gets the cheapest internet service he can find.
Ummm... no... it's hotel owners already paid too much for older wifi and aren't willing to spend the money to upgrade it.
Linus looks different today
Haha yeah! So strange!
lolfreak333 lol cracked me up
Yeah, Chinese people look so strange!!
Wight Kid Yes but I love you to do it before I have 2.
He sounds a little southern too...😂
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When hotels have faster wifi than your own....
mine is 128 :(
mine is 400mbps:(
mine is 100kb download speed ;(
Mine is 1mbps
300-400kbps
Never heard anyone bringing router to a hotel. Most cases it never works since most network switches uses ACL to allow/block unknown IP-MAC.
Honey Steel I bring routers to hotels
Um, not how it works.
I'm using a Netgear Repeater as a client bridge at St Joe's Hotel & Resort as we speak, my friends! Works friggin GREAT! 25Mb Torrent downloads.
But the 25Mbps WiFi of the Hotel is 10 times faster than the WiFi I have at home
Yeah but take into account that 25Mbps connection is shared among dozens to hundreds if not thousands of guests, worst still if the hotel is largely reliant on the common and older 2.4GHz channel standard (which most hotel and people still do) rather than the newer, faster and less saturated 5Ghz frequency standard. This would make the radio frequency in the premise to be super saturated and bad especially for mobile devices like smartphones or tablets.
DarkZerol They point was that the 25Mbps Hotel Wifi, counting all people connected etc, is still 10 times faster than the WiFi I have at home, and I have a 2000€ Gaming Pc, and I can’t play a single online game, because life sucks.
Giorgio Tomaselli LOL mine is 350mbps at home
Giorgio Tomaselli dude, i have a €2000 gaming pc to, and crappy internet to! (500kbs dwn 50kbs up) :D
Jarno Modderkolk if you haven't any other option available you should look for a new home
As a hotel receptionist, I'm glad you made this video !
I should show this to my boss who refuses to upgrade our equipment (It's exactly as you described...!)
Anyone watching from a hotel at 144p :/
Akmak yhea xD
Akmak me but in 710p
rc racing damn elitist!
lol yes
Akmak jgc
I replaced one of those abysmal contract systems in a 70 room hotel with Ubiquiti Unifi AP's and it kicks arse. Front desk would receive tons of hate about the old wifi. Now no monthly maintenance fees for the hotel owner and no random firmware upgrades from the outside vendor who wouldn't alert anyone. And now were considering putting in smart TV's to give guest more choices w/o the need to run more cat6 cables. Makes guests majorly happy...emps too.
Another option is to... plug your computer directly to the Ethernet port
Not possible if you have a phone though, which is why bringing a router that can supply wireless internet can really help.
If your computer have both Lan port and wifi, you can host internet to wifi. Creating a direct ethernet hotspot.
Lots of newer laptops (especially ultraportables) don't have ethernet ports. Also, many people want to use wifi on their tablets or smartphones.
Some hotels dont have one
You can connect your phone via Ethernet with an adapter.
Who's watching this in a hotel
me
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Me but i dont have slow WiFi it is 135mb
roeikie nigga
I had been in a hotel with faster WiFi than mine at home!
You need to upgrade your home WIFI then
Sorry to say you must have a very crappy internet at home.
It's ya boi your home WiFi is shit then
Saquez thanks!
my home wifi is about 5-7.5 Mbps, and every single hotel I've ever been to has had 8-50mbps, so for me hotel wifi is fast lol
i normally just use my laptop to generate a wifi signal using the Ethernet connection. works really well, and bc i always take my laptop with me when i travel i don't need to buy a standalone router.
whenever we stay in hotels, we either don't have problems with the internet, or we just use our phones and cast mobile hotspots. Funnily enough though, whenever we tend to stay at motels, there tends to be fairly up to date network equipment just sitting in the bottom of the nightstand, which almost always seem to be dual band ac routers.
Because everyone's watching LTT videos
Maths Helper hey grandpa
sinus sex sips :v
Someone forgot to do colour correction; the black-point is way into the greys on the video
So this is the new Dared Jines?
Your name made me actually lol
Because everyone is watching Netflix.
When I was staying at a hotel several months back, I was watching Rick and Morty on dailymotion :\
No, pr0n, actually.
NoO MetEor GarDen ;))))
It varies wildly, and this video does a good job of covering why.
I still remember circa 2016 when I got 40mb/s in the free WiFI from a Marriott Hotel. That was pretty sweet, especially since back then most universities and places I went to capped you at 10mb/s or lower. It's funny nowadays it's not unusual to have 100+mb/s.
the best internet I've ever seen at a hotel was in Ft. Lauderdale. I don't remember the name of the hotel, but it had a pool a few stories up and it was right next to the beach. I went there for spring break and wished I brought my laptop because I could've streamed at 1080p with no buffering. it was AWESOME. I don't think you even had to pay for it!
even during the morning or at night when most of the people are online.
I feel so privileged when I read comments like this
Speaking from personal experience as one who worked as an IT at a hotel I would also point out that not every hotel has access to a fast infrastructure on the provider side of things. Hotels in European city centers especially UNESCO heritage sites are sometimes limited to either VDSL or even ADSL line connection or crowded and often unreliable over the air internet (again due old infrastructure in place and many buildings are of similar height that may block LOS often required for OTA Internet and local architecture preservation societies screaming bloody murder just at an idea of putting a metal stick to the roof for better internet not to mention cutting into walls to replace phone wiring). The phone line cables can be as old as interwar period (Yes many phone line cables laid in between 1900s-1939 are still in place in many European cities) an you can imagine how great that is. Even 30 year old phone lines can introduce a serious bottlenecks in the transfer speed not to mention switch stations can be generations behind current standard. That are just my two bits.
Same here in parts of the US, And dsl has the speed but not enough throughput to serve 100s of guest.
i love the fact that linus comes up as he says "Real VIP"
When writer host video, you know it's going to be a great video ☺
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If my old rinky dink high school had fast and reliable Wi-Fi, then an expensive ass hotel has absolutely no excuse
0:01 who are you?
0:03 who is you?
0:05 am i look like i care?
Watching this video in 240p because of slow hotel internet
Im now in a hotel with a bad ass network infrastructure😊. 😁
Well, the tv programm is streamed over the network to little clients. ...for example
Then its running at 10 mbps 😂😂😂
tobi Herrmann lucky
And thing is... I went to Thailand and my internet was 221 megabytes per second
Fancy laptop?
Watching this on my NoPhone.
I see an example of the network infrastructure hotels could have any time I go to my dorm. There, they actually have incentive to put routers every few feet and have big bandwidth.
Ha I'm watching this in a hotel
Same here
when I stayed at a hotel in california to go to disneyland, the hotel internet wasnt too bad.
It's amazing how many people comment "first" or "second". Just stop. Nobody cares and you aren't even first or second.
Tuxedo Cat First
TheLittleDetails CR it's the little details that matter okay
Tuxedo Cat second
Harley Quinn That, good sir, I am not lol
First, second, third :P get rekt raging kid tuxedo cat
I worked wifi support for a chain of hotels, and some hotels had like 10mbs for the whole hotel, even if they had like 50 rooms, and the actual wifi equipment a lot of them were using could be over a decade old.
Well, some of our country's hotels don't bave protection so I netcut everyone.
If you’re on vacation, you shouldn’t need fast hotel wifi. Get out. Enjoy your destination. Don’t stay in the hotel. It’s boring there. Business travelers, I have no words of wisdom. But a router or just plug your computer into the LAN and don’t allow your device to be discoverable
Hotel ?
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My home internet is slower than a hotel room internet.
I once managed to play GTA5 online on hotel wifi with no problems haha
My two cents on the Topic. Hotels started to notice that people would stay in their rooms and hog bandwidth. Hotels are there to provide a bed to sleep in, a full bathroom to use, a TV to watch, a landline to make/receive calls, free breakfast, a desk for your fullscreen device, and enough bandwidth to check email, FaceBook, Twitter, and basic web browsing. Only recently they've started offering dedicated bandwidth for things like Netflix, etc. Free tips for hotel internet. 1. VPNs are a must for staying secure at a hotel. 2. Offline media on the pocket or fullscreen device of your choice. 3. Try not to download or upload large files wherever you are and how long your away from a fast connection.
good thing i dont travel
FinNote You're missing out on the world
great video, we own a hotel and being a techie our hotel has fantastic wifi (now), when we purchased it a few years ago every AP was just Linksys WRT54g's with a single DSL connection with each AP having its own SSID - we have since upgraded to a dedicated fiber line and use Ubiquiti Unifi APs, Managed Switches and a micro PC gateway running pfsense etc etc...i would say (at least Choice brand hotels) have moved Wifi to a main focus, for example, you are required to have X/Xmbps/each hotel room you have and this number increases yearly and you fail your inspections if your Wifi is not up to snuff so +1 for hotel brands finally figuring this one out
Why don't hotels just give every room a personal WiFi router? That comes with Ethernet AND great connection. I use my phone with 2GB of data to make a personal hotspot.
Noah Evans duhh thry will pay thousands of $
This wouldn't make it faster! It would interfere with other devices and that would make it slow..
Daniel Rippen "5 Ghz"
100 room hotel has 100 ethernet connections plus 100 routers, or just a few. I wonder why they don't do that...
They're making money with outdated network equipment and it's not something most people investigate prior to checking in.
More of John plz.
He's prob the most clever man working at linustechtips.
Who else takes routers to hotels?
John and Edzel are honestly my favorite two video hosts. Always deliver the info in a straight forward and less cancerous manner
Every hotel I've gone to has had faster internet than my house (I live in a country with slow and expensive internet, 6mbps costs $1000 a month)
PCMR does 6mbps cost $1000 a month?
PCMR yes, I'm talking about USD, I made the assumption that you thought I was from the U.S. Because you just said US
Jesus Christ I get 11mbps for only £20
My internet at home doesn't work, so now i have to watch the 50 uploads that i missed on AWFUL hotel wifi. Wish me luck
One time I had really slow internet at the hotel and I put the Same password for the business WiFi and my connection was so good. And one time they had WiFi for every room
Good room? Check.
Good wifi? Check.
Hotel? Trivago.
in hotel it had wifi which had speed above 20MBs
20mbps at india would be like 1gbps here
anybody else notice johns improvement in on camera stuff. good job john, keep it up!
so many ppl use it, the wifi in hotel are total garbage
There is also the case of the provider access speed provided, which is a MAJOR factor. It was touched on, but you'd actually be SURPRISED at how many hotels run their Wi-Fi off of a SINGLE T1 connection. Source: I've been with a major telecommunications provider for 14 years...
Hotel? Trivago!!!
I'll see myself out.
I've just been travelling around Europe for the past 3 weeks. I've noticed some of the Hotels limited the connection to around 2Mbps. Something ibis do is Free Wifi is around 2Mbps, but you can pay and the speed is dramatically faster.
I stayed at an ibis in Krakow a few years ago, they must have been on fibre as I uploaded a video to Facebook that must have been several hundred MB's, under a minute it was uploaded
This is such a first world problem
Next Video: How to add RGB lighting to your travel router to make your hotel experience better
Callum Hallett-Rorke because you were expecting third world problems on a tech channel?
Craig Alford Point taken.
Callum Hallett-Rorke
It isnt.
True but it's not like "my coffee is brown instead of black"
Ok hold on when did John start doing tech quickie vids i thought Luke and linus only did these
yay John!
When your hotel's "slow" internet is faster than your home's.
I don't drink soda, I normally bring my homemade mini soap packets and I don't trust the cleaning methods of pretty much everything tangible in the hotel room...But yeah it's a real "treat".. .
E drop fun fact the comforters are rarely or never washed. :D
It really can be. You ever been in a REALLY nice hotel in Paris or Tokyo? God damn.
i just steal all the soap
freak.
John has discovered the new standard for WiFI - "Warlolss AC"
this dude has the biggest blocked nose, i think you need some tissues
It's amazing how you can make an interesting video on almost any topic.
I'm not watching this in a hotel, and I'm not saying their wifi is faster than mine.
Can I have likes for honesty?
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As a former employee of iBahn most of what is suggested is true. What isn't discussed is the circuits the hotels have. We had La Quinta's that had a 786k circuits. Most Marriotts, Farifield Inn, StayBridge and TownPlace Suites have/had 2-3 bundled T1s. When I was downsized in 2012 we were using cable connections as a primary and a T1 for backup. The big named hotels with lots of rooms and conventions spaces usually run 2 DS3's for the connection. Maybe they have changed since then but hotels are cheap on how much they spend or locked into for the contracts.
A lot of Hotels will also cap the speed for the free WiFi, encouraging you to spend money on a faster package.
As a side note, when I stayed in NY an the One UN, it had great WiFi, it was like 60Mb down and 90Mb up, totally free and there were a plethora of access points throughout the hotel.
I actually got a really good resort in Turkey that had individual WiFi routers hard wired into every room, all the pools and trees and even on the beach!
I'm trying to watch this from a painfully slow hotel wi-fi connection...
You know what's worse than hotel wifi? Grandparent wifi.
If your hotel's wifi is too slow: You're staying at the wrong hotel.
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The other thing I find sometimes helps (particularly in highly-congested scenarios) is if your wi-fi device allows it, turn down the transmit speed. I think this makes the signal more robust and easier for the router to receive.
No, no, the high end resorts' Wifi is actually fast. I can even make video calls in 3 star hotels.
Good wifi is a huge USP for many hotels these days. I manage IT for medium to large hotels (100 to 400 rooms), all guest networks have at least a 1Gb uncontended leased line, each device gets limited to 5-20Mb/s symmetric to prevent people from hogging the bandwidth. Even at 5Mb people comment how snappy web pages open, this is because it is uncontended (if you have ever used an uncontended line you'll know how web pages open as soon as you press the return key). Enough to stream an HD video from Netflix is what we say to clients. Hotels are well covered with one UAP-Lite per four bedrooms, and UAP Pro devices for larger spaces.
There's a story about some IEEE conference ~15 years ago where the attendants were so frustrated with their hotel WIFI that they asked the hotel management to let them set it up properly, because a lot of the problems were simply down to poorly placed and configured access points.
What can _I_ do? I'm tethering to my mums phone because this hotel doesn't believe in free wifi.
You forgot the free air conditioning, which is possibly the single best aspect of staying in ANY hotel/motel.
the hotel is went to had multiple routers on the roof of the hallway separated by a few meters so it was good
That awkward moment when the last hotel you stayed at has AC wifi......
....and your house doesn’t
Pro tip: look for chain hotels, but smaller ones. Don't go to a Standard Marriot, go to a Marriot Courtyard, etc. The speed is much faster, because they literally use the same connections for all buildings. The speed is fast enough for at least 1440p UA-cam.
Man, I love videos hosted by Jon.
Quick tip! I 26 and I have spent a minimum of 6 years of my life in a hotel. This is mostly due to work shipping me from place to place, and in my younger life traveling with my mother for her work. Anyways, if you're finding that your connection just absolutely blows try reaching out to the front desk and asking them who the provider is. With hotel networks they usually delegate the TS and all that work either to the provider or a tech company to provide support. Now why might you do that? Well some things you can do to help is scan for the wireless networks and see what channel the strongest wifi connection is on. From there you can adjust it if it's on a really crowded space (would recommend scanning it yourself, as a network tech it can often take me forever to figure out what's on what channel). Why do you even need to do this you may ask? Well some routers/switches when powercycled can lose their channel settings which often gets them set back to "automatic" or some default channel like 1, 6, or 11. As a side note this can be difficult to trace what you're connecting to as they generally employ mesh network setups. If you're having a hard time get your MAC address and tell the rep, this can make things go a bit faster if you're having issues. Next thing you can have them check, especially for your gamers out there, is to see what the MTU setting is as that can create some issues. It's not something you often have to worry about, but it can make a difference. Next... Let them do what they can. Some of the routers/switches that are deployed aren't exactly magic and they're not always able to correct the problem due to limitations. That being said if you get buddy buddy with them then they might restrict access to certain WAPs by MAC address ;D. HINT HINT lol Failing all that do as the video says and try hooking up a SWITCH. Why a switch and not a router Cody?!?! Cause most people don't know what half of the things in it do, and certain routers *COUGH COUGH* have settings you can't change which make it a real pain in the butt. Get a wireless switch and you don't have to worry about jack. FAILING THAT... Try moving rooms. Seriously. Depending on the age of the hotel and the area you're staying at they may have just a single fiber optic connection (hopefully more), or they may have a couple pairs of bonded lines that they use. So what they will sometimes do when they have multiple connections is have completely separate networks. So you may be in a room close to a bunch of other people all using the same line, or WAP, so moving rooms to a less filled location can help a lot. This won't always help as newer technology that hotels use to supply VOD and other services are all delegated by the routers that they use which means they tend not to separate their networks with a whole bunch of individual networks because then they have to do a lot more work. Last trick and then I'm done. DONE I SAY. I'm also not gonna go super in depth because this doesn't always work, and doing it could be...iffy on the legal side lol. But wanna know how your tv gets all that sweet VOD content? MoCA. What is MoCA? It means data over coaxial cable!! Anywho, if you simply must get a router. If you get one that is MoCA compatible and do a bit of sniffing you can see what network settings you need and potentially get yourself a sweet direct connection to the router bypassing a bunch of the network. This last trick I only recommend for those of you who are network savvy and know what you're doing. Doesn't always work of course as there are easy ways to keep people from doing that...and certain configurations may be in place specifically and only for video which without access to change the router settings may just screw you over....But this is a hotel and it probably wasn't done correctly the first time anyways lol.
"Hotel WiFi is slow"
I watch this video at 144p and my download speed is 12 kbs
I think it would be a good idea to put some low volume background music on, as there is an audible drone when wearing headphones. Oh and I'm watching this over hotel WiFi 😁
I am watching this right now in a hotel at 144p
Great video! Some of the issues i tend to find is that the hotels (at least int he UK) don't have large Internet pipes, which means if you share a 100Mbps link between 100 people as an example, that works out 1Mbps per person (theoretically). Sounds like enough right?! Well another issue is that most people tend to carry 2-3 wi-fi devices on them such as laptop, iphone, ipad ect. It is predicated by end of 2017 that each person will have 4-5 wi-fi devices on them.
I don't expect all devices to be connected and transmitting simultaneously, however quite often i will be online with my laptop and updating my mobile apps at the same time. Using the example above, that would work out 0.5Mbps per device (assuming everyone is connecting two devices and bandwidth is being shared equally).
Though some hotels do have a local server for Internet caching, so popular sites like BBC news, or the latest iOS update is stored locally rather than making the user go off to the Internet to download them - which can dramatically increase performance, as your getting LAN speeds rather than WAN speed.
Last issue is that hotel wireless networks are not normally built to cope with high number of devices trying to access the network, and is normally built for coverage. This can mean you have a device on the far reach of the AP cell transmitting at 1Mbps, slowing down that cell network for others users who might be closer and thus getting a high connection speed. And since WLAN is built for coverage this means you can have too many clients trying to connect to the same AP thus over loading it.
Rough rule of thumb for deploying a wireless network is 1AP per 20-30 devices for light Internet usage, 15-20 for medium usage or 10-15 for heavy traffic. (FYI alot of other factors can come into play that can alter the ratio, but this is normally used to give a baseline estimate.)
The thing with sucking hotel wifi , is that the best wifi signals are usually at cafes and bars . And thats when you dont need it because thats where you are interacting with others . Its your hotel room where its important
I work IT for a hotel management company.
IHG is currently shifting their standard to a single 100 down 100 up connection for all the guest, BUT we throttle the connections at the wifi AP's to something about 5 down/1up. Most regional hotels are required to only have 50/50. In some cases, we do have 200/200 connections, but you'll only find those where the infrastructure already exist and again, we throttle the connection speeds. As well, all wired connections are being completely removed in most cases in all Marriot, IHG, Hilton, and Best Western hotels that we manage. Wired connections will only exist in meeting rooms.
And, our equipment really isnt out of date. Every 3 years, we're changing out every AP in the building which is a LOT of fun especially when the AP is hidden above the toilet in the bathroom.
I also get every single damn notification every time one of you downloads a torrent for your travel porn. Please, be considerate and download using a VPN
very informative. ive stayed at many hotels and worked at plenty. at some had decent wifi others didnt. i always wondered why and this explained it very good! thank you tech quickie!
I worked at a hotel for years. At our hotel, it was 1) because we had a contract with an internet provider in the next state over, so they never wanted to make a trip to our location to fix the wifi & 2) because the franchise owner was cheap & would not spend ANY money they didn't absolutely have to.
I have a travel size router that cost me less than $15USD and it is great.
Some hotel does not offer wifi but can loan you a router for $30 that you can get back when you return it. It just makes things simpler.
I stayed at a hotel where the wifi was so poor, you couldnt even connect to the web page to upgrade your internet package.
if i get slow wifi
-plug my laptop
-download a massive addon for my games
-leave it overnight
it is amazing how easy to recognise that the script is written in the same style but a different host changes everything #iwantlinusback
I work in the hotel industry and just wanted to chime in. I just wanted to say that a lot of hotels don't neglect upgrading their equipment because of in-room movies. It's the cost of the equipment that is on the owners mind,. Many of these owners are not tech savy and running a hotel is already an expensive operation so wifi speeds tend to take a backseat to more pressing amenities like bed quality, breakfast offerings, shuttle services, etc. Many of the major brand hotels actually have companies that limit the download/upload at each room of the hotel individually in an attempt to keep congestion at a minimum.
On my last holiday i downloaded some GoT episodes via vpn from an one click hoster and unpacked and watched it on my mobile phone.
Next door some guys were playing Age of Empires 2 on two desktop pcs, they brought to their hotel room.
Couldn't join them, was there with my girlfriend.
And it was 34 degrees in Spain.
What a time to be alive.
Hey guys, something super fun to do at hotels, is bring all your phones, tablets, whatever you can find, and have them all upload as big a file as possible to a website that doesn't throttle uploads. You can knock out an entire network like this.
For those that are bored to watch the video: WiFi in hotel is slow because there are many people using the same wifi! Say you wanna watch some youtube videos but you are really forced to watch at 144p resolution!
Never thought I would see the day where 802.11N WiFi is considered slow as balls for hotels considering last time i used a hotel they weren't even using 802.11G
To recap.
1) Hotels businesses are more concern into more important things than just a speedy network infrastructure
2) Buy a Small portable wireless router or just stay away from slow WiFi hotel.