Wireless Internet?Cheap Motel-how i get internet in a cheap motel?

[oscar111]

Hi Lounge Lizards!

Please tell me... since now and then i wind up in cheap motels...
how can i get internet in a cheap motel?

I figure their switchboard will not handle it.

Wireless? Isnt that requiring infrared nearby?

Cellphone , with pay=by=the=minute hi fees, would it work? I am willing to pay. Can i get a full sized keyboard for it?

Satellite phone... can it do internet?

[Az]

1. Wireless is not infrared

If they have it its RF and should be adequate.

[lapfog_1]

2. A lot of cheap motels offer wireless now

sometimes free.

Usually they install a base station in the office and connect it
to either DSL or cable... so, for best reception to your wireless
laptop, ask for a room near the office ( or at least with clear
line of sight of the office).

Infrared doesn't play in wireless. (Wireless is in the low powered
radio domain)

You can do dial up with a cell phone, and some cell phones offer
special IP connections, but the bandwidth sucks and if you are on
some sort of "prime time minutes" plan, it could be prohibitively
expensive.

Sat phone? Don't know about that.

[FloridaPat]

3. Most hotels have free for cheap local calls. You go through land

lines. Slow, but better than nothing.

[oscar111]

4. Switchboards can handle internet traffic? youall sure of that?

cheap motels have switchboards which might be old switchboards. Can they really handle something new like the net?

Anyone have real experience trying that setup?

[shawcomm]

5. Are you talking actual switchboard operated by the office?

Because I'm betting most are some sort of PBX or other phone system, Merlin, Partner, etc. All those will handle dial-up, though depending on the quality of the components, may limit you to v.34 speeds.

[ConcernedCanuk]

6. Yup - a phone line is a phone line - that simple

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If you have regular dial-up service, doesn't matter where in the world you are, you can dial your provider from anywhere - even set up the "connection" on someone ELSE'S computer, but much MUCH better if you use your own computer. You will have to set your computer's dial-up properties so it will dial the long distance prefixes, that's all.

Don't forget the "9" that some phone lines use to get an outside line, and if there is an option in the settings to make the puter wait for the dial tone, make sure it is checked)

SAVE the setting as a different "connection", so when you get home, you just have to "select" your old connection, because you didn't change the original dial-up properties for that one. Same thing goes if you are using a friends/another computer, save the connection as a different connection, so the original/friend's settings remain unchanged.


So

Did this help?

Or just add to the confusion . .

:shrug:

[FloridaPat]

7. I have never stayed at a hotel that had a switch board. It's all

computerized now.