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[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Well, considering that even their premium wifi will usually only get about 29 Mbps down at the high end, it won't be super effective.

[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is basically what I get at home, on average, despite paying for 100Mb/s, because capitalism says you can use the words "up to" when you sell something that will likely never reach that number.

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago

classic. isp's always over promise and under deliver. in this case it's not that there's not more headroom available, it's just that they throttle non priority devices leaving us high and dry when you're trying to play a game and use voice

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It doesn't sound like effectiveness is their goal anyway.

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago

fair enough, I may have a different perception of hotel wifi than the average person due to extensive work travel.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Use a router setup to combine network connections for throughput, setup in a box with solar in motel central, and tada, you're risking someone else's connection.

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I already use a glinet beryl ax for all my hotel stays- they're typically 8 weeks at a time so it's important for me to be able to isolate myself from their standard network.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

For anyone else curious:

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt3000/

Looks like it has built in wireguard vpn client support, so you can connect to an external vpn server and route all traffic to it automatically from all your devices.

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago

can confirm that it works well, however ease of use typically keeps me off of the vpn for my quest 3. it does occasionally glitch out a bit since newer hotel networks are usually dualband so you'll have to manually set the beryl to only accept 5ghz otherwise it'll frequently deauth. I've noticed that sometimes it'll also deauth if there's another beryl on the same network. It's kind of like playing whack a mole with deauthing.