It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. However, once you find that your hotel provides such a terrible Wi-Fi environment, is there anything still that you can take an action there? Note that I'm not asking for whether it is possible to know the quality of Wi-Fi at hotel in advance, which has been posted in this question.
What I ask here is how you can deal with it when you find your hotel provides a terrible Wi-Fi. Usually, I get through it by going into cafe with Wi-Fi. But still, the cafe might not provide you with a good connection. Also I want to use my Mac in midnight, when most cafes are not open in general.
It's really stressful So is there still anything I can do to assure the good network environment? My point is that I want to use my Mac whenever I want including midnight , since it is a part of my job working while traveling. The minimum requirement is a stable access to GitHub and Stack Overflow and fast google search responses. For me, the stable, undisconnected network is far more important than the speed and latency, once it is above 3Mbps. But this occurred in Singapore and Japan as well.
South Korea never bothered me in this regard, though, as the major cities are full of terrific Wi-Fi cafes. At first, I thought it would be sort of difficult to answer this. Then I remembered something called Speedify. It's a multi-platform service which utilizes channel bonding to allow you to fuse multiple internet connections into one. By using a technology known as channel bonding Speedify makes it possible to spread individual packets amongst multiple Internet connections.
By splitting all your web traffic at the packet-level even large single socket transfers such as VPNs, streaming movies, and uploading and downloading files can be given a major speed boost! This would allow you to be connected to an LTE mobile connection and the hotel WiFi at the same time. If speed is very important to you, you could even join multiple LTE connections together. That would, of course, increase your expenses.
But then, you're asking for high-speed internet while traveling, which is not going to be free in any case. Being connected through multiple connections at the same time would be a good protection against this, as you'd maintain an acceptable speed even when one of your connections goes slow or disconnects altogether.
Speedify review from Macworld. Speedify review from TechVise. Speedify review from PC World. Generally favourable. As you have now noted in a comment, this also doubles as a VPN, which may also be useful in certain countries. Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with Speedify.
Although I realize this answer probably reads a little bit like I am. A simple trick to use - especially if browsing the web is very slow, is to change the DNS settings on your laptop for that WiFi connection. I generally use Google's public DNS servers which are 8. You can also subscribe to a premium DNS service such as smartdns. These servers are what translate web addresses to IP addresses which is how computers connect to each other.
The problem is that WiFi routers make horrible DNS servers and are not designed for a large number of clients; and if your DNS lookup is slow, the entire Internet will feel slow, even if the physical connection is good because you are waiting on the WiFi router to tell your computer where to go - in order words, you are stuck on the ramp while trying to get to the Internet super highway. I can only tell you what I do. First, pick a chain of hotels and stick with them. I always stay at a certain band of hotels and this gives me the ability to know going in that I am less likely to have a problem.
When I do have a problem, I have more barging power because I am an established customer. Use their wired network. Most hotels I stay at have but don't advertise in room Ethernet. Usually it's just a plug in their lamp on the desk. Almost all hotels have this. Make sure to ask about it if your having a problem with wifi. Go to the business center. There is almost always wired connections and better wifi in the business center. Again, almost all hotels have this.
Use your cell phone tethering. Yep it sucks, but if your getting bad speeds at the hotel, then it may be your only option. That may be totally unrealistic. I understand your goal but unless your watching Netflix or playing games that kind of speed just isn't needed.
You could try not pushing commits till you have a better network. Or just accepting a slightly slower page load time. For example a google search is around 80Kb. Even with a 56k Modem that less then 2 seconds. At around kbps that's less then a second. A SO page is KB, again, at around kbps that just a few seconds. Try running a local caching DNS server on your laptop, or try caching more aggressively.
Essentially, at even kbps you should have more then you need to do the kind of tasks your looking for as far as bandwidth is concerned. Maybe latency is an issue? You can get a better Wi-Fi antenna. A lot of wireless issues are simply due to poor coverage and crappy access points consumer-grade gear is garbage and OSes are way too optimistic about displaying the signal level - sometimes displaying full signal when you can't get more than 1Mbps from the AP.
Get yourself an USB wireless dongle with decent antennas this one looks nice, but I haven't tried it and you should get way better speeds than with the default antennas try not to laugh your laptop comes with.
A USB WiFi dongle on a long lead can allow you to maximise your WiFi signal without you having to sit on top of the wardrobe or in some other daft place. I've been known to hang it out of the window as reception on the floor below had a good strong signal, or to run it under the room door into the corridor. Of course this will only help you if it's your connection to the wireless network that's the issue.
But you mention it disconnecting which makes it more likely that the WiFi itself is your problem rather than the upstream connection. This obviously doesn't apply everywhere, but some hotels have ethernet ports in the rooms. If you bring an ethernet cable and a USB or Thunderbolt ethernet adaptor if you laptop lacks a dedicated port then you can use a direct connection which may be faster. As an aside, this doesn't sound like the issue you're having but some hotels I've been in have run out of IP addresses in their DHCP pool.
You can fix this by setting one manually. I usually buy a local sim card with access to the internet. Most countries have special offers for tourist at the airport. You just need to bring your passport.
This can make a huge difference to some web pages such as news sites. It is not possible to improve your bandwidth with a bigger antenna when you have seventeen users downloading stuff next door slowing the whole house down. You could copy them and use a download manager for normal files, YouTube, etc. Download all day then watch later.
The first trick and most important is to reduce the number of simultaneous connections. Drop it down to 3 items, tops. I can't remember the way in IE, but in Firefox do this: 1 type About:config in the address bar 2 search for Connections 3 change Http. X the reason why this works is that it makes a request for a file and if it takes too long to come in then it times out and you get nothing. If I absolutely didn't want to be slowed down, I would disable images although I prefer to see the image placeholders, some browsers may not show them nowadays.
They let me know if I am missing a small or large image and sometimes it's caption tells me what is supposed to be there. If I want to see it I can right click it and press "show image". You can try disabling other things like Flash - but today the webpages are covered in it, so some sites would become unusable. A new one I have not explored is that some sites have "mobile" versions of their site as opposed to "desktop". A quick search tells me that Safari lets you do that, and you can get a "user agent" switcher for Chrome or Firefox.
I have given six tips, the last four tips are also useful if you are nearing your downloads limit with your ISP. Just because I didn't see this answer above, see if there is another place nearby that has better wifi. In my case, I was lucky and it wasn't password protected.
But if it was, I could have asked someone going in or out if they'd be cheeky enough to let me have the password. That way you don't need huge amount of speed: just enough to display locally what is on the remote pc. Know that some hotels that charge for Wi-Fi have special access points that monitor for other Wi-Fi communications taking place in range, and jam them by sending a "deauth" packet.
So if you're using Wi-Fi tethering from your laptop to your mobile phone, this will cause frequent interruptions and disconnections. This is done in an attempt to force their guests to use their expensive Wi-Fi service. But American laws don't apply to hotels in other countries, who might also be trying to make a fast buck. For the purposes of this answer everything will be in bits.
Another feature of Opera that can increase browsing speeds by up to three times is the built-in ad-blocker , which can be manually enabled or disabled in preferences.
Some people may find this feature to be morally objectionable however, as it deprives some content creators of their only income source. Opera also has a strong presence on the mobile platform. Another good browser for a slow connection Google Chrome. Firefox is unfortunately lagging behind a bit when it comes to speed. Like Opera, Chrome can also be optimized for better speed and performance.
Firefox also has the Adblock Plus add-on and the noscript add-on ; the latter disables and blocks bulky elements on web pages like Adobe Flash Player, Javascript, Java and so on. However, not all websites use the format m. A more reliable way to automatically access the mobile versions of websites is to change a setting in your browser known as the user agent string.
Websites will obviously render differently according to what device or browser that you appear to be using. But the great thing is that the user agent string can be spoofed. Once we change the user-agent to a mobile device, websites will automatically load the mobile version if any of the website that we type into the address bar.
Another trick for improving download times is to load webpages in plain text. By doing this, images, videos, flash and most ads will be automatically removed. Here are three ways to achieve this:. Use a text browser - One way to drastically simplify the browsing experience and load web pages much faster is to use a text-based browser like Lynx.
While there are other similar text browsers like WebIE, Elinks and so on, Lynx is the oldest and the leading text based browser. You will have to download and install the application. If you want to learn more about text browsers, check out this page on 12 text-only-browsers for browsing in slow Internet connections. You can also try the Image Block add-on for Firefox, which blocks the loading of images and results in shorter page load times.
A third way to view web pages in plain text is to use a web application like this one. So what is the maximum number of browser tabs that you should ever have open at a time? Lifehacker claims that you should never have more than 9 browser tabs open at any given time. That's about the most that we ever keep open at a time and we usually try not to accrue too many tabs.
But what if while surfing the web you come across more than 9 pages that you want to refer to later? Well, there are a number of alternatives to keeping dozens of browser tabs open. Firstly, you can try to be less scatterbrained and read one page at a time, absorbing all the information on that page before moving on to the next page.
Also you can always find the pages again in your browser history once you close out the tabs. Another option is to bookmark important pages or save them for offline reading using apps like pocket. Safari also has a reading list, which we talk about at the end of the article. You can also try converting web pages to a PDF file and downloading them for offline reading by using a bookmarklet or browser add-on.
They allow you to add extra functionality to your browser, allowing you to do things like make pages more reader-friendly, instantly translate foreign languages, convert web pages into PDF documents, automatically destroy cookies and so on. They may also cause your browser to crash more frequently. And if you combine a slow system with an already slow Internet connection, you get a situation that is very ugly indeed.
If you find any add-ons on your browser that you virtually never use, you should remove them. Also, you might have two add-ons installed that both perform the same basic function. In that case you can keep your preferred one and remove the other.
For any add-ons that still remain, you may be able to replace them with what are known as bookmarklets instead. But what is a bookmarklet exactly? However the important advantage they have over add-ons is that you can add as many of them as you like, without slowing down the browser or causing it to crash. Moreover, they tend to be less browser-specific than add-ons, so you may be able to use the same bookmarklet on all of your browsers Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera etc.
Many sources will claim that clearing your browser cache too frequently will slow down your Internet connection. That would be correct. The result is that the next time you visit those same web pages, your browser already has those files stored and can load the page faster. If the cache gets too large, your browser has to scan a much larger database to check if it already has the files it needs to load the web page, which can slow the whole process considerably.
If things start to really lag or freeze up, clear out the cache and you should see a big improvement. But you may be able to improve the situation without having to leave the room. One factor that affects WiFi signal strength is the physical distance from the router to your device.
In theory a WiFi signal should reach feet in any direction from the source, but in practice, obstacles get in the way and reduce the effective range. When travelling to your laptop, the WiFi signal can get absorbed or deflected by physical barriers like doors, floors, fish tanks, mirrors and especially solid stone, brick especially or concrete walls. Signals can also be susceptible to interference from numerous electrical appliances including cordless phones, microwaves and older televisions.
So to improve a bad Wifi signal, the first thing you can try is moving around the room. Unfortunately, the best WiFi spot in the room may not always be the most comfortable spot like the bed but you always try pulling up a chair, stool or sofa if your room has one. But wait…. The number on the left is the signal strength, the one on the right is signal noise. You can now keep this window open and walk around the room or out onto the balcony with your laptop in hand and the program will display the changes in the signal strength as you do so, helping you to find the best location.
Apps like heatmapper windows and netspot mac are also available if you want to really take this to the next level. Using these apps you can run scans to create a detailed heat map of how exactly the Wi-Fi signal strength varies throughout the room.
When the Wi-Fi at your lodging slows to intolerable speeds and seems to take infinitely long just to load a simple page, the problem can sometimes be fixed by manually restarting the router. Note that restarting the router is not the same as resetting the router. A factory reset or hard reset usually involves pressing a tiny recessed reset button usually located on the back panel or underside of the router by inserting a straightened paperclip or other slender pointed object into the recess.
This will restore the router to its default factory settings, removing the network name, username, password and any other settings that the owner has modified from their defaults. A restart , on the other hand, involves turning off the router and then turning it back on again.
You can do this by simply unplugging the router, leaving it unplugged for about 30 seconds and then plugging it back in again. Some routers also have a power button located somewhere on the body, but with some routers nothing seems to happen when you press this button. It will usually take minutes for the router to reboot and get fully up and running again.
You should then be able to reconnect to the Wifi network and retest the speed on speedtest. Hopefully there will be an improvement. You may be curious to know why a restart can fix a slow connection. In fact, rebooting can be an effective solution for a lot of tech-related problems. V is acting up? Turn it off and back on again. Computer keeps crashing? Reboot it. But as for routers specifically, there can be several reasons why they need to be rebooted every so often to restore functionality.
Some get overheated and start to malfunction as a result. If there are a bunch of complaints, you might want to consider booking elsewhere. You can also try picking up a beefier external antenna for your router. Apps like Connectify work wonders for Windows systems, and setting up Internet connection sharing on macOS is similarly easy.
Our advice? You should feel a little nervous about using it. And you can always bother the front desk over the fact that your favorite website is taking too long to load, though you might want to phrase it differently than that.
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