Comments on: Dear Hotel Owners, Here’s How To Make Your Wi-Fi Suck Less

By: Joe Talcott

Joe Talcott

I’ve just stumbled across your site. Wonderful. This article makes good points and helps hotels/motels with great suggestions. I had an experience with a hotel, on two different stays, the first provided great service and the second horrible WiFi service. I had a conversation with the manager, which I detailed below. The gist is that when the hotel was empty, their service was great. And when the hotel was full, the service was unacceptable. They provided the best service to the fewest customers and the worst to the most; not a great TripAdvisor strategy.

By: Diana

Diana

Hi Dave,

It seems your article might be just what we need! I own a small resort with 9 cabins and the 3 furthest have bad wifi. No matter what router I buy, the problem persists. I will try both moving the router, adding access points and data limiting. These are things we haven’t tried!

I found this article by googling “best router for hotel wifi”…so thanks!!

Diana

By: Dave Dean

Dave Dean

In reply to Laura.

Hi Laura,
I answered your email before seeing this comment — hope it’s useful!

By: Laura

Laura

Hello,

I hope if you can’t help maybe you can point me somewhere that can.

I have a 12 unit motel. I bought an $280 Asus router but the signal still wont reach the furthest 4 rooms. (My rooms also have cat 5 cable hardwire connections so my router needs to be near the switch. I cannot put the router in a central location without a couple of big changes, meanwhile….

What router would reach further? Wouldn’t that be better than getting range extenders ?

Thanks very much.

By: Rachel

Rachel

Just got back from a beautiful hotel in California, and my ONLY complaint would have to be how horrible the Internet Access was. It had the frequently seen login function, but even after I did this the connection would drop immediately. I’d get it back for about 5-10 seconds at a time and then it would drop again. I hope hotel owners see this article and consider it, because there are plenty out there that need to work on their WiFi! Thanks for sharing.

By: Wayne

Wayne

Good work

By: Dave Dean

Dave Dean

In reply to G Ushban.

It’s both. The fastest, least-congested Internet pipe in the world isn’t going to help when the hotel has a single ten year old Belkin home router with 30 people using it at once.

That’s not to shift the blame away from ISPs — they’re often awful as well, for the reason you mention.

By: G Ushban

G Ushban

its not in the wifi hardware. It is the Internet provider who operates with no sense of capacity planning. It sucks everywhere so the problem is in the infrastructure.

By: dags

dags

I totally agree, even Neanderthal man had faster internet than some places I have been

By: Dave Dean

Dave Dean

In reply to Dan Gent.

Thanks Dan! Yep, there are definitely routers out there that support QoS out of the box, without you needing to install DD-WRT on them. You’ll typically pay a bit more for them — but they also come with more memory etc as mentioned, so they’re a better device regardless.

By the way, I suspect that may be the first time in recorded history that anyone has used the words ‘drinking beer’ and ‘UMTS frequencies’ in the same sentence. 😉