An absolutely terrible experience in the heart of Silicon Valley.
In the middle of my mail sync with Exchange I got a pop up saying the hotel has detected improper activity coming from my computer (a Mac Book) and slowed my speed to 56k (not that it was great before with speeds in 200k download range.
What was I running? Entourage, Mac Mail, Skype, GizmoProject and Camino.
Overall Grade F -due to not telling me upfront they were monitoring
Speeds F Too slow to be called Broadband
Capabilities F VPN from HotSpotVPN did not work
Syncing mail was impossible
What proved this was I pulled out my EvDO Rev A modem and everything was working right and my mail was synced and downloaded in 5 minutes.
Provider is LodgeNet and their PR folks are working to have me talk with some senior technical folks next week.
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