Some recent experience using hotel- and guest-house Internet services
while travelling through Germany, Sweden and Finland.
None offered any IPv6 at all. Peasants!
One blocked all the good stuff, both VPN and SSH… but it would happily
let through HTTPS, and raw port 25/tcp to arbitrary addresses. These
people are odd. Nobody else blocked anything.
Only two had a click-through "registration" page (and a reasonably
smart bot could have got past one of them). Glad to see these are
finally going away.
One of those two, in a major hotel, also suffered from about twice as
many 802.11 base stations as it needed, and therefore serious
frequency clash, leading to constant dropouts and renegotiations. I
bet they employed consultants.
The lowest latency I met was in Lund, roughly the same 5-10ms I'd get
to an arbitrary server from my home connection. Worst was 500ms+ on
the Viking Line (presumably via satellite at least some of the time),
not helped by serious packet loss; TCP retries would come usually
through eventually once a connection had been established, but TCP
setup and particularly DNS queries vanished without trace about 2/3 of
the time.
Nowhere tried to charge. That ship has sailed and only really greedy
hotels (Holiday Inn "Premium" Internet) continue to attempt to rip off
their customers in this way.
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