For the first time in a while, work patterns mean that I’m in a hotel for the week. It’s being made more bearable by the discovery that Radisson hotels (the Mountbatten in central London and the Edwardian at Heathrow) offer free (as in beer) wifi. Not only that, but it’s a decent speed, passes-through a VPN with no trouble, and has port 22 open for SSH sessions. All in all, it’s about all you could ask from a hotel service – which is more than you can say about most of them.
I suspect this may be a trend occuring – more and more hotels seem to be realising that charging for wifi is like charging for water. Once a few start offering internet access for free, those that don’t are at a disadvantage, and so the trend towards openess becomes free. Which won’t please Openzone and the likes, but that’s capitalism for you…
