Marginal Internet Access at Hilton Las Vegas

The bandwidth at the Las Vegas Hilton is considerably slower tonight than last night; and it's probably due to the influx of CES geeks like us in the past 24 hours. After mentioning this in an earlier story, a reader wrote in to say:

"The Hilton does NOT run out of towels, soap, water, AC, electricity, food, etc…..but it is OK to run out of bandwidth? FIX this HILTON"

That's a great way to look at it. Picking up a towel or soap in town, finding a place to eat, and putting on a jacket if we lost heat are inconveniences, but not the end of the world. But we can't work efficiently without reliable Internet access.

Let's hear what you think. We've created a poll on this topic and published it to the upper right-hand corner of TechnolgoyEvagelist.com's homepage. Tell us what YOU can't live without in a hotel room when you're traveling for work? Is it Internet access, like us, or something else? If your must-have isn't included in the poll, tell us about what it is and why in the comments.

You have Vegas connections, one even open to interesting short-term business opportunity, right? What you need is to cop a shuttle away from the slow bandwidth zone onto a fresh grid...the key is finding the breakpoint, is it next door or a block or a mile away?

How much would that be worth, to buy faster internet access post conference and pre sleepytime, bonus if it served food and drinks and lapdances, eh? Vegas is always going to be a conference site, and more tech than ever hits conferences, so the business opportunity is just to stay one step ahead of the bandwidth providers, right?

Comments

1. Posted by: Xavier on January 8, 2007 2:14 AM:

The entire conference is short on INternet connections. Sprint's EVDO system is getting extremely slow. WiFi and wired connections were spotty in the Sands press room. There was one strong network, but that cost $399 for 2 days of access. Very lame.

Notebooks.com- $1,200 WiFi at CES 2007

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