I’m staying at the Quality Inn hotel tonight. I wanted to get online and check my email so I stopped by the front desk and asked if there was a place I could plug my laptop in. The concierege told me it wasn’t a problem because the hotel is now wireless!
Sweet! I asked how to get online, and they handed me a little slip of paper with an email address and password and told me to use this info to log in for my hi-speed wireless access. Again, YAY!
Just as I was turning to walk away from the desk, he says “Yeah, give that a try but I haven’t gotten it to work or had anyone get it to work yet.”
I went back to the room thinking maybe I just didn’t understand what he meant, so I gave the username and password a try. Sure enough, it didn’t work.
When the Quality Inn says they have hi-speed wireless access, just know that they aren’t talking about hi-speed access to the internet, becuase I’m thinking that their wireless internet access is more of a myth.
So, here I am at 1 am sitting in the 7′ x 7′ square room dubbed “the business center”, complete with a half full plastic cup of mountain dew, an unopened can of diet mountain dew and a waste basket overflowing with beer cans and print outs of country music song lists.
The computer is litered with icons for online poker sites and links to a powerpoint presentation named “supermodel.ppt”
To be fair, they do have a stapler, hole punch and printer too (complete with 7 sheets of paper!).
I’ve found the perfect home for the beer guzzling, country music listening, poker playing businessman who needs to staple some shit. Oh yeah, no claustrophobics allowed either.
high speed wireless, as in — it doesn’t matter what the speed, wired or not … access is denied.
Sounds like a hick cubicle. Classic! =)