Just Call the Hotel IT Guy Before You Check In
by
Brett Bumeter
This week I traveled to Nevada to cover some events at the Laughlin River Run. This is a biker rally and I was here to cover concerts and the overall event itself.
This trip unlike many of my other trips, I was finally prepared for the internet with an Air Card. That was a good thing as the hotel wireless (like so many) was crap.
To be more specific it was crap on our floor. After the fact, we were able to get a refund on the wireless access fee (other bloggers bought in not myself). It was at this point that the IT guy told us that our floor didn’t have wireless coverage.
That would have been useful information before we checked in!
So going forward, whenever I’m not packing a air card or have a large amount of data to push and need to use the condo hotel or even rv park system, which happens when uploading large videos. I’m going to call the hotel and ask to speak with the IT people first before I check in and then request the optimum floors of coverage from the front desk when I get there.
Now as these battles with hotels go, I suspect that they will try and find some other way to defeat my efforts to get work done, but its one more tool to add to my bag of tricks.
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