For awhile I lived in hotels for work. I'd always rebook whichever one had the best wifi :). This would have been so useful.
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@mscccc I guess it's not the first thing I'd be looking for in a hotel, but if I had to decide between two "similar" hotels, this would definitely be a tie-breaker. It would be nice if this info had a more prominent spot in traditional hotel guides (the Tripadvisor's of the world).
@andrewpyott Having it rated on tripadvisor would probably incentivize them to make it better :)
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Simple enough page. If you're at a hotel, they run a speed test to add the info to their database. If you're looking for a hotel, you can find the options with the best WiFi at a certain city and then go straight through to booking.com to place your booking.
From their about page:
"When some of us book hotel rooms, our first thoughts aren’t about whether they have in-room coffee service, or if housekeeping will let have a few extra tiny bottles of shampoo. Instead, our eyes immediately scan for "Free WiFi" somewhere on the booking website. The promise of free WiFi is a big draw in today’s age of constant connectivity. Nothing could be more disheartening than turning on your laptop, only to realize that the hotel’s WiFi is so slow it will take four hours to view the thirty-minute video. You’ve begun to wonder if there’s anyone out there who cares whether hotels not only deliver the WiFi they advertise, but whether they deliver really-good WiFi."
My world needed this.
Upload speed is just as important to me as download speed, as it has a bigger impact on the quality of a Google Hangout or Skype call. There are also places with good speed, but bad proxies, inserting code into web pages (like many Four Seasons) to put in headers, or intermittent connectivity problems.
wefi, a hotspot database, just released a report of the top 15 hotel brands with the fastest Wi-Fi. Interestingly enough, Red Roof Inn was #1:
http://www.marketwired.com/press...
I like that HotelWifiTest.com facilitates the communication between the guest and the hotel about their Wi-Fi speed and doesn't post the results on their page until they have enough results to get a true baseline. Great service that will definitely factor into my hotel booking in the future!
So so very useful. When I went on GOAP with 500 Startups I remember that #1 criteria for choosing a hotel was wifi. We were all doing work from our hotels. Just dropped them a note about it.
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