Bill M. wrote:
>
> Over the past two years, all of the motels I've stayed at have
> advertised "High Speed Internet" or more typically "High Speed
> Wireless Internet", but so far in every case I've found that they mean
> there's a usable wireless signal down in the lobby only. In my room,
> there's never been enough signal to be able to pull down web pages or
> email without the connection stalling or timing out. For the places
> that had wired Internet but not wireless, it has typically meant a
> very old and well used PC in a dusty corner of the lobby. Naturally, I
> never saw anyone using it.
>
> Take my experiences with a grain of salt, though, because I usually
> shop for motels by price. (Days Inn, Motel 6, Super 8, etc.) Maybe the
> more expensive places would be different.


HUH!?!??!? Those ARE the high end places (to me! :) Unfortunately, expensive
also sometimes doesn't mean squat, I remember one place in Talkeetna
(alaska), that was $250 a night, but had absolutely no wireless nor wired!
That's when I started thinking location location location...... :)