fast and faster access to the intertron
by Christopher Blizzard
I’m staying at a Marriott in Santa Clara this week. One of the options in the room is, of course, Internet Access. One thing I haven’t seen before is that they have two levels of service:
Option 1: High-speed Internet for $3.95/day
Greate for casual Web browsing, checking e-mails from home or office, using VPN, online chats, and downloading files
Option 2: Premium high-speed Internet access for $9.95/day
Up to 4x faster upload and download speeds and ideal for online applications and streaming video and audio
I thought that was kind of odd until I thought about it for a while. I suspect it’s a porn tax. Hotels reap a huge amount of revenue from people ordering adult movies in their rooms and having high speed internet access competes with that. It was the streaming video and audio that triggered it.
But considering that it’s taken 45 minutes for my mail to resync, maybe I should have paid the tax.
How fast is this so-called “high speed internet”? Taking nearly an hour to sync e-mail seems like an inordinately large amount of time, unless you have lots of large attachments. Even a low-end high speed internet connection will get you nearly 100 MB in that amount of time.
Hey Chris,
I live in Santa Clara, and there are a bunch the VMWare/Gnome guys just a couple cities over. If you’re free at all Thursday or Friday and you’d like to hang out for a little bit, just drop me a line, and I’ll see who I can round up!
-Travis
(PS – check the “Website” URL if you don’t recognize my name – I’m the one in green)
I recently got some junkmail trying to sell me on the Road-Runner (Time Warner Cable) “Premium” high-speed internet. I’m already a customer of theirs, getting their standard 5Mbps download speed. I can’t even imagine a scenario where that isn’t enough and it is worth paying extra for 8Mbps.
Hey Chris,
I live in Santa Clara now, and there are a bunch of VMWare/Gnome Developers just a couple cities over in Palo Alto. If you’re still here Thursday or Friday, and you want to hang out, I could try to round people up. Just drop a line to the email address above!
-Travis
(PS: In case you don’t recognize my name, I’m the one in the green shirt in that photo. Also, I tried submitting this earlier, and either I didn’t notice Firefox crash or it just got lost.)
What do you use for a mail sync protocol?
road runner time warner
Hi. Thanks for the good read.