Ulysses wrote:
Thanks for sharing. It's good to have collaboration on these new tech issues.
Data usage is subjective. I work online, but I don't do usually do more than a hour or two of video meetings daily.
But, if you are doing training, or attending training all day, then I could see where you would need an ass-load of continuous, low latency, broadband. And, I would never expect any hotel in Costa Rica to guarantee that kind of broadband availability.
It's going to be hit or miss, depending on usage in the hotel. It's also going to be variable based on placement of the WiFi antennas and quality of the wireless infrastructure.
Question to ask.
1. What type of Internet connection does the hotel have. Specifically, is it a fiberoptic service?
2. How many WiFi antennas are installed in the hotel?
3. Will there be a WiFi antenna in my hotel room?
4. Is there an option to connect an ethernet cable directly to my laptop in the room?
In Costa Rica, the answers to these questions will not be so great. Shared WiFi, without line of sight is not your friend if you need continuous, low latency, broadband.
These are great questions, especially the last. In my business travels I know I would favor hotels that had Ethernet in the room. I travel with a portable travel router that let's me create my own wifi network either bridged behind the hotel wifi, or via ethernet.
I would make a small change to the list of questions though. How MANY access points isn't as important as where they are placed, especially in regard to the bands available. You alluded to this, but putting an AP in every room would simply be overkill.
From:
https://www.networkworld.com/article/22 ... rence.htmlCode:
[b]Interference from your own access points[/b]
One of the biggest interference issues with Wi-Fi networks is actually the networks themselves. If a wireless network hasn’t been properly designed and configured, the AP signals might be interfering with each other. You want about a 15% to 20% coverage overlap between AP cells. If you have less or no overlap between the AP cells, you can have bad signal spots in the network. If you have too much overlap between AP cells in either band, it can cause co-channel interference along with other issues. You want the APs located so clients keep roaming to the best AP for that particular location, and also so they don’t interfere with each other’s signals.
Even if the hotel has done the legwork to create a solid wifi network, it'll only ever be as good as the upstream bandwidth they pay for. From what I've seen in CR is that it's easy to get solid download speeds, but getting comparable uploads speeds is a challenge. So SL could have plenty of available bandwidth coming in, but if they run out of bandwidth for outgoing requests it won't matter.
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