Hotelwifitest.com Focuses on Poor WiFi: If Holiday Inn Express was a City, it Would be Las Vegas

NEW YORK, Aug. 13, 2014 /CNW/ - Hotelwifitest.com has released a new report that ranks hotel chains and cities by the percentage of hotels with poor WiFi performance. This type of ranking makes perfect sense from a practical standpoint. For most travelers, having super-fast and consistently stable WiFi is a great bonus, but the first priority is ensuring that the basic quality expectations for Internet access are met.

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In this report, a hotel judged as having adequate WiFi must provide an expected download speed of at least 2Mbps, an upload speed of 1Mbps, latency not exceeding 500ms, and an average stability rating of at least 3 out of 5. Upload testing, latency testing, and stability feedback are relatively new additions to the testing process; therefore, for some hotels, download speed was the only factor being measured. Furthermore, this report does not differentiate between paid and free WiFi.

The chain of a hotel is one of the best predictors of WiFi performance. Also, travelers can usually choose their preferred hotel chain in a given area or city. The first table of this report presents the 20 most tested hotel chains and ranks them by their percentage of hotels with poor WiFi.

Table 1. 20 most tested hotel chains ranked by their percentage of hotels with poor WiFi 

	Rank	Chain	Hotels with poor WiFi (%)
	1	Radisson Blu	17
	2	Hyatt Hotels & Resorts	34
	3	Quality Inn	35
	4	Best Western	35
	5	Sheraton Hotels & Resorts	36
	6	Marriott Hotels & Resorts	40
	7	Mercure Hotels	42
	8	Crowne Plaza	45
	9	Westin Hotels & Resorts	45
	10	Hilton Hotels & Resorts	46
	11	Courtyard by Marriott	50
	12	Comfort Inn	51
	13	Doubletree	54
	14	Residence Inn	55
	15	Holiday Inn Express	56
	16	Holiday Inn	62
	17	Novotel	67
	18	Hampton Inn	83
	19	Hilton Garden Inn	83
	20	Homewood Suites	90

Travelers who want to minimize their chances of having poor hotel WiFi ruin their online experience should choose hotel chains closer to the top of the table.

The second table ranks the most tested cities worldwide by the same criteria.

Table 2. 20 most tested cities ranked by their percentage of hotels with poor WiFi 

	Rank	City	Country	Hotels with poor WiFi (%)
	1	Stockholm	Sweden	4
	2	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	8
	3	Amsterdam	Netherlands	17
	4	Tokyo	Japan	19
	5	Rome	Italy	27
	6	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	29
	7	London	United Kingdom	30
	8	Berlin	Germany	31
	9	San Diego	United States	33
	10	Barcelona	Spain	35
	11	Washington	United States	37
	12	Singapore	Singapore	38
	13	Chicago	United States	38
	14	Vienna	United States	40
	15	Bangkok	Thailand	41
	16	New York	United States	41
	17	Orlando	United States	44
	18	San Francisco	United States	48
	19	Paris	France	53
	20	Las Vegas	United States	57

For most travelers, changing their destination city is not an option, but this information can still act as a friendly warning, a suggestion to spend more time reading hotel reviews, and a strong recommendation to book an accommodation property with tested WiFi, if possible.

This report provides valuable advice for choosing a hotel based on chains and global destinations. However, it is always better to check WiFi quality before booking a hotel. In some cities, this is very easy to do: there are 180 tested hotels in New York alone; 42 of them have an expected speed of more than 10Mbps.

SOURCE: Hotel WiFi Test

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