Comments on: WiFi access points should be rated http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/04/wifi_access_points_should_be_rated.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:15:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jonathan Mulholland http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/04/wifi_access_points_should_be_rated.html/comment-page-1#comment-221644 Jonathan Mulholland Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:37:09 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/?p=6096#comment-221644 Hey Ewan - I'm on holiday round the corner from you at the Prescott Hotel in downtown San Francisco! Small world! Glad to say that the free wi-fi here is pretty good. You may have to take advantage of the wi fi in one of the cities 89 Starbucks, I think I saw a couple in Fishermans Wharf earlier today... Hey Ewan – I’m on holiday round the corner from you at the Prescott Hotel in downtown San Francisco! Small world! Glad to say that the free wi-fi here is pretty good. You may have to take advantage of the wi fi in one of the cities 89 Starbucks, I think I saw a couple in Fishermans Wharf earlier today…

]]> By: Jeb http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/04/wifi_access_points_should_be_rated.html/comment-page-1#comment-221615 Jeb Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:52:09 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/?p=6096#comment-221615 Ewan, I have been saying this exact thing for years in terms of GSM signal. I have actually been on phone calls with you and wanted to walk into a hardware store but couldn't knowing I would lose the call. I think restaurants, stores, office buildings, etc. should all have ratings. I would love to see hotels.com or Zagat include a rating system in their reviews. I would not stay in a hotel if I knew my mobile wouldn't work there. Would you? Jeb Ewan,

I have been saying this exact thing for years in terms of GSM signal. I have actually been on phone calls with you and wanted to walk into a hardware store but couldn’t knowing I would lose the call. I think restaurants, stores, office buildings, etc. should all have ratings. I would love to see hotels.com or Zagat include a rating system in their reviews. I would not stay in a hotel if I knew my mobile wouldn’t work there. Would you?

Jeb

]]> By: Stefan Constantinescu http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/04/wifi_access_points_should_be_rated.html/comment-page-1#comment-221596 Stefan Constantinescu Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:51:08 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/?p=6096#comment-221596 here is a trick i always use when out of town, go to the nearest public library. no one uses them anymore and they usually sit on dedicated lines so it is always faster than all hell. <em>Stefan Constantinescu's last blog post..<a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/IntoMobile/~3/265522562/picasa-web-albums-goes-windows-mobile.html' rel="nofollow">Picasa Web Albums goes Windows Mobile</a></em> here is a trick i always use when out of town, go to the nearest public library. no one uses them anymore and they usually sit on dedicated lines so it is always faster than all hell.

Stefan Constantinescu’s last blog post..Picasa Web Albums goes Windows Mobile

]]> By: MarkW http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/04/wifi_access_points_should_be_rated.html/comment-page-1#comment-221589 MarkW Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:03:29 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/?p=6096#comment-221589 Hotels need to start taking this more seriously and not just treat it as a marketable afterthought. I was in deepest rural France last year and desperately trying to sort one of those horrendously urgent problems that only happens to clients when you are on holiday. We opted for a quaint traditional hotel to have lunch while I was sat in the square using wi-fi from a nearby chain hotel (L'Orange, via my BT Opezone acc). When my family started waving furiously at me I thought something (else) had gone horribly wrong. Turns out the quaint hotel owner was desperate that I should come in (out of the rain, I might add) and use his newly installed FREE wi-fi, which he'd had tested all over the building! It was a lifesaver, I could eat my duck salad with one hand while migrating email accounts to a new server with the other. If the French (the FRENCH FFS!) can get this right, you'd think San Francisco had it taped years ago. Still, if the RAZR is still the height of 'cell phone' sophistication........... Hotels need to start taking this more seriously and not just treat it as a marketable afterthought. I was in deepest rural France last year and desperately trying to sort one of those horrendously urgent problems that only happens to clients when you are on holiday. We opted for a quaint traditional hotel to have lunch while I was sat in the square using wi-fi from a nearby chain hotel (L’Orange, via my BT Opezone acc). When my family started waving furiously at me I thought something (else) had gone horribly wrong. Turns out the quaint hotel owner was desperate that I should come in (out of the rain, I might add) and use his newly installed FREE wi-fi, which he’d had tested all over the building! It was a lifesaver, I could eat my duck salad with one hand while migrating email accounts to a new server with the other. If the French (the FRENCH FFS!) can get this right, you’d think San Francisco had it taped years ago. Still, if the RAZR is still the height of ‘cell phone’ sophistication………..

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