"At check-in, Lisa asked the front desk clerk if the hotel had wired internet, not just wi-fi. He said there was no wired access. When we got to the room, we saw there was an Ethernet port. I plugged my computer in and the wired connection worked."
Setting up the artshow at various British cons we often find some lonely and abandoned RJ-45 sockets in the room which are still connected to a long-forgotten but still functioning router somewhere in the hotel. Most folks these days think Wifi is the only way to connect to the Internet at a hotel or other establishment but we know better.
Saying that about the first thing we set up on a working Ethernet port is our own Wifi router for the artshow staff and friends since the hotel's own internal Wifi gets hammered once the crowds come in.
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Date: 2016-08-23 10:54 am (UTC)Setting up the artshow at various British cons we often find some lonely and abandoned RJ-45 sockets in the room which are still connected to a long-forgotten but still functioning router somewhere in the hotel. Most folks these days think Wifi is the only way to connect to the Internet at a hotel or other establishment but we know better.
Saying that about the first thing we set up on a working Ethernet port is our own Wifi router for the artshow staff and friends since the hotel's own internal Wifi gets hammered once the crowds come in.