That darned hotel WiFi signal

by billso on Saturday, 9 August 2008

The con­ven­tion cen­ter has free WiFi, but I need a break before dinner. I just spent 20 min­utes find­ing a sweet spot for my hotel’s WiFi.

Getting a signal

My room is behind a cor­ner, so I moved the desk 3 feet towards the win­dow and put a phone book under my computer.

That was enough to get a bet­ter view of the near­est access point. 

Yes, I could sit in the hotel lobby like the other con­fer­ence par­tic­i­pants have done, or con­tinue my vigil in the con­ven­tion cen­ter, but I have my geek rep­u­ta­tion to uphold… and I don’t have a cel­lu­lar data card any more. 

Image cour­tesy of billso through a Cre­ative Com­mons License.

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Tagged as: hotel, Internet, radio, WiFi

  • http://www.letsbookhotel.com John Alex

    You should have com­plained that wifi sig­nal is low and maybe they could have changed your room.

  • MikaelS

    You shouldve tell some­one about your prob­lem, they were surely be glad to change your room because I dont know if there is a Hotel man­ager who wants to let his cus­tomers upset on any­thing about the hotel.

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    Hawaii Hotels

  • MikaelS

    You should have told some­one about your prob­lem, they were surely be glad to change your room because I dont know if there is a Hotel man­ager who wants to let his cus­tomers upset on any­thing about the hotel.

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    Hawaii Hotels

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