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Outrageous hotel internet charges

[buckworks]

I'm typing this from the Park Plaza, via dialup.

I'm sharing my room with a couple of others, and we had intended to do some serious online work together while we were here.

Problem: the hotel charges $9.95 for 12 hours of broadband access -- even though on the service signup page it says 24 hours (so much for truth in advertising!), and it turns out that charge is PER DEVICE, not per room or even per user. We can't even take turns using the connnection! It would cost us at least $60 per day for the connectivity to do the work we had intended.

The hotel also charges a dollar per call for local and toll-free calls, too, which they don't tell you about unless you ask. I won't be doing many quick log-ons to check messages, even via dialup.

To quote my roommate, "Hard facts about the Big Easy!"

[Mardi_Gras]

Are they literally charging that for 12 hours or do you get access from whenever you sign up until midnight (typical, but still lousy)?

[Stores]

We went to RadioShak (1 block past bourbon on canal) and bought a wireless router to help with this issue. It gets you around the 1 connection thing.

[SEOMike]

I signed up for the service too. If they charge me for 12 hours of connectivity I'm going to be pretty mad. Right in the checkout process it said 4 days - $39 and change. Talk about mis-representation.

[Stores]

Y'all are welcome to sponge off my wireless if you can connect to it. I don't see anything being too much of a bandwidth drain that I couldnt spare it. :)

[buckworks]

We have a wireless router but that didn't help. We used my roommate's computer to sign up with, but I could not access the network unless I paid an extra connection fee for my computer.

[Milamber]

We have a wireless router but that didn't help. We used my roommate's computer to sign up with, but I could not access the network unless I paid an extra connection fee for my computer.

Did you setup the router to mask his MAC address?

[Stores]

Its working in here...so something is wrong on your end. The MAC address idea sounds like it could work.