Timeline for How to cope with too slow Wi-Fi at hotel?
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| Oct 13, 2016 at 6:25 | comment | added | Matthew Lock | I've used this technique before with success by using TeamViewer to remote me into a computer with a stable connection. | |
| Oct 12, 2016 at 16:33 | comment | added | Olivier Dulac | @Blaszard: thanks for the welcome! I totally understand that my alternative possibility is not good for everyone, and you give perfectly valid reasons to be wary about (even though they could be mitigated, for those who still find this useful, by: having other hosts that can wake-up the host, if the main computer has "wake-up on lan" possibilities, or even if it has a fancy "ilom/whatever" interface allowing one to power off/on the computer. And also "help from a friend" (or family member, etc) to avoid a huge fee just to restart the computer ^^. As for the net reliability ... ymmv :/ ) | |
| Oct 12, 2016 at 16:28 | comment | added | Blaszard | Well, sorry I don't like these types of solutions as it makes me wish the connection at remote won't be broken forever. Sometimes this occurs for whatever reasons (even aside from the error on the computer or network, earthquakes, power failure at home, etc...). And the biggest problem is it is insufferably painstaking to recover it, as I must go back to my home by a flight! Anyway thank you for the answer and welcome to this site. | |
| Oct 10, 2016 at 10:40 | comment | added | Olivier Dulac | @mts: thanks ^^ But I focus mainly on his "cannot tolerate <2Mbps" part, which to me is quite difficult to achieve in many parts of the world (and on many hotels as well). My solution is to work around that (bandwidth is reliable on the computer's location, and he just access that computer with much less bandwidth by just drawing that computer's screen locally). It is an alternative, but can be used with the other answers as well (ie, can boost local speed too). With mine he can have just the "needs huge bandwidth" part on the remote computer (ex: edit video remotely, use mails on his laptop). | |
| Oct 10, 2016 at 10:35 | comment | added | mts | but the OP does not want to access huge data but websites in a stable manner. I'm not the expert here but I don't see how this would help, in any case, I do leave the vote open for others. Welcome to Travel SE by the way :) | |
| Oct 10, 2016 at 10:25 | comment | added | Olivier Dulac | @mts: I believe the opposite. Having "2mbps" as a minimum is quite hard to achieve in many hotels... so it limits a lot his choice of hotels (and even then, if that hotel happens to have more guest using the bandwidth than usual, it's still not guaranteed to be enough), whereas my solution makes the bandwidth requirement much lower, expanding a lot on the possible usable wifi points the OP can use for his tasks | |
| Oct 10, 2016 at 10:22 | comment | added | mts | I don't think that would help the OP much with his actual problem. | |
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| Oct 10, 2016 at 10:14 | history | answered | Olivier Dulac | CC BY-SA 3.0 |