Hotel Wi-Fi: The Biggest Challenges and Recommended Solutions, by Jeremy Rock - 1 views
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Wireless has also created new ways for hotels to connect with their guests to generate loyalty
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Security and the potential compromising of personnel guest data is becoming a key concern amongst season travelers. Hotel networks tend to provide the illusion that guests are accessing the internet through a fairly secure environment. However in many cases hotels are acting simply as a HOTSPOT and are no more secure than the shared connection at your local coffee shop. Often hotels act simply as an ISP and offer no more security when controlling and monitoring the traffic on the network. The following are some items to consider when addressing Wi-Fi security concerns:
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This article is talking about wireless internet becomes more and more important in the hotel industry. They provide some of the key considerations for the hoteliers that help the hotel to ensure they can meet the demands of their customers. There's a big demand for wireless access to hotels. Every customer would like to choose a hotel with a Wi-Fi service. Wireless become very necessary in the hospitality industry. The best wireless service that can help the hotel create the loyalty customers. Wi-Fi has become a standard amenity, therefore, the hotel has to find affordable and non-disruptive solutions to meet customers wants and needs. Currently, customers would like to use the smart phone and their computer to watch videos rather than watch TV. They are not just sending email and web surfing anymore. There have a strong needs of the best internet from the hotels. The articles showed us couple challenge of wireless in the hotel. First of all, weak cellular signal strength. In many hotels, for guests, it's not always can find the signal of their cell phone, especially in urban area. The customers can't have a good voice communication with others. Maybe because the location of that room in the corner and there have something will disturb the signals or building construction that will interrupt the signal as well. The solution of the cellular signal strength is "Make provision for both voice and data signals to be amplified." To installing that equipment that always needs the hotel to run a new cable in order to provide the good signals for the guest used. The second challenge for the hotels is "Cellular Network Capacity Issue". Since cellular companies continue selling the device for many years without expanding their network to meet their demand. For example, AT&T is the first company that realized this issues when there are sell iPhone and another cellular. Thus, it's very important that each device support connection to the internet by use Wi-Fi withou