{"id":1223,"date":"2009-11-08T21:21:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T01:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2009-11-08T21:21:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T01:21:51","slug":"fast-hotel-internet-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/2009\/11\/08\/fast-hotel-internet-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Hotel Internet Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the time when you go to a hotel the internet service pretty much sucks, and if it is free it sucks even more. However this weekend I was greatly surprised by the service in the Residence Inn by Marriott in Charleston WV. In the room they had a DSL modem on the table. So I plugged in the laptop an to my surprise this was what speedtest.net showed:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1224\" title=\"Screen shot 2009-11-06 at 8.04.09 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Screen-shot-2009-11-06-at-8.04.09-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2009-11-06 at 8.04.09 PM\" width=\"302\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Screen-shot-2009-11-06-at-8.04.09-PM.png 302w, https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Screen-shot-2009-11-06-at-8.04.09-PM-300x134.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think this is the first time I had a ~3Meg connection in a hotel room. I was able to download stuff at over 250KB\/sec from my house while there as well. So kudos to the Residence Inn for the awesome Internet connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the time when you go to a hotel the internet service pretty much sucks, and if it is free it sucks even more. However this weekend I was greatly surprised by the service in the Residence Inn by Marriott in Charleston WV. In the room they had a DSL modem on the table. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/2009\/11\/08\/fast-hotel-internet-service\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fast Hotel Internet Service&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,29],"tags":[202,203,201,200],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hotels","category-travel","tag-hotel","tag-internet","tag-marriott","tag-residence-inn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}