Broadband infrastructure in Irish hotels

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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38919

This guy (who is complaining about GBP 5 per hour WiFi connections in GB) obviously hasn't been to Ireland where some hotels charge EUR 10 and more per hour for internet access - and in some cases you have to sit or stand in the reception area to avail of same because there is no wifi coverage in the room! At best it crawls along because the entire hotel is sharing a miserly 512k heavily contented DSL connection!

Even worse than their mini-bars dispensing tiny 25 or 33 cl bottles of high sodium content (blood pressure raising in more ways than one!) bottled tap water for €3 or €4 a bottle!

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Thomas_S_Hunterson

I would have thought most hotels would give free WiFi...and those that don't are avoidable.

1huge1

^^ ya would of thought it would be included in your package

parsi

probe wrote:

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38919

This guy (who is complaining about GBP 5 per hour WiFi connections in GB) obviously hasn't been to Ireland where some hotels charge EUR 10 and more per hour for internet access - and in some cases you have to sit or stand in the reception area to avail of same because there is no wifi coverage in the room! At best it crawls along because the entire hotel is sharing a miserly 512k heavily contented DSL connection!

Even worse than their mini-bars dispensing tiny 25 or 33 cl bottles of high sodium content (blood pressure raising in more ways than one!) bottled tap water for €3 or €4 a bottle!

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Try the London Hilton Metropole - coke in the minibar is uk3.75 and if you move a bottle you autoamtically get charged. WiFi access was patchy as well.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

parsi wrote:

Try the London Hilton Metropole - coke in the minibar is uk3.75 and if you move a bottle you autoamtically get charged.

That's ridiculous! You should work out a way to remove the contents of the bottle without moving it, just to spite them!:D