What is going on with the internet connection?

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farmerjohn1324

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Is this a problem with my computer or with the hotel that I'm staying at? I just switched computers and the problem seems to be worse.

I have an HP Notebook 2000. In the bottom right, it clearly says "Wireless Network Connection: connected", yet the internet does not work. Or, it will work for 5 minutes and then stop working, then after 50 tries of pushing disconnect and then reconnect, it will prompt me for the hotel wireless password, which I will put in and then it will work, only to have the internet stop working again 5 minutes later.

Is there a way to make sure that this is not a problem with my computer, but is a problem with the hotels router or modem?

Once I make sure, what can I ask the hotel staff to do to their router because I know them fairly well.
 
I had this problem when i was away on holiday last week. I see that hotels / resorts have a strict bandwidth on how much each user can use. I think its only meant to be for light use nothing too heavy.
If i ever have any problems at home with my internet connection i usually dump the dns and renew ip via the CMD function. If your not familiar with it have a look below..

Start > type in CMD > Little black box should appear...

Type ipconfig /release at the prompt window, press Enter, it will release the current IP configuration.
Type ipconfig /renew at the prompt window, press Enter, wait for a while, the DHCP server will assign a new IP address for your computer.

With dumping/flushing your DNS...

type ipconfig /flushdns.

Flush DNS first then go ahead with the IP.

see if that works. The DNS flush will clear all cached ip addresses and resolve issues in connecting to the host correctly :)

Hope this helps
 
Most hotels wireless connection sucks. In order to stay connected, I would have to leave the room and go out into the main sitting area. They didn't have enough access points to cover the building that well.
 
Having worked for an IT company that serviced a hotel, I can tell you that they severely restrict connection speed so everyone can try and get online. That coupled with large gaps between access points equals a poor Internet experience.
 
Use a VPN if you use a hotel's WIFI connection and at least make sure your connections to secure sites are encrypted by looking at the little pad lock in the address bar.
 
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