I agree that most of the time, and for many people, paying lots for wifi is not optimal, and doesn't make sense when you have an EV-DO card or phone that can do DUN. It will become even less of an issue as EVDO networks get built out and rev. 0 is replaced by rev. A, then B, then C (if we don't get some other technology that supersedes one of these like Wimax). However, right now, there are reasons to pay for wifi. One could be reception, the other is throughput. If you have lots of data to transfer, a difference between 500Kpbs and 5Mbps can add up quickly. Sure, for most of us it won't matter. But the throughput issue and the fact that EVDO still isn't everywhere still makes Wifi the only option for a lot of situations. In any case, why even have this argument? Companies, rightly or wrongly, allow their employees to use wifi. Maybe this means that there are some hotels out there that can get away with $15/night, but for those of us that this is unacceptable for, we can easily choose to go somewhere else, or we can choose to stay there and use our EVDO phone for DUN. The marketplace will work itself out. There are lots of luxury hotels which offer things like bathroom attendants which I would never pay extra for, but some people would and so they are still around. I don't choose accommodations based on luxuries, but everyone's different. It's the same with clothing, jewelry, etc. Some people want the name/reputation that goes along with the item as much as the item itself. I'm could care less. I wear a Treo on my belt and don't care that some people think it looks big, bulky, and geeky. But if people want to spend lots of money of fashion, or high-priced hotels or services, they have every right. I'm not going to choose it, and I'm not forced to. But if that's the way they want to spend their money, it's their right. While I don't agree with that, they do provide jobs and thus help the economy in some ways that I don't. So who am I to judge them?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Craig Froehle
> Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 2:28 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Treo] Re: Response from Sprint about the Treo 700p
>
> OK, let's all take a big breath and relax.
>
> Perhaps my post was a bit too in-your-face. If so, I apologize.
>
> With that said, I don't understand why someone who has an
> EV-DO cellular data card in his/her briefcase would ever then
> pay *extra* for hotel Wi-Fi (assuming the hotel is in EV-DO
> coverage) when the speed throughput for either is likely more
> than adequate for any but the most data-intensive task (e.g.,
> high-quality videoconferencing).
> EV-DO has sustained throughput of about 400-600kbps, meaning
> that transferring even 10 megs of data could be done in under
> 3 minutes.
> Wi-Fi just isn't going to make much of a difference in any
> but the most extreme situations, so paying extra for it on
> top of the sunk cost of a monthly EV-DO card just seems
> wasteful to me, regardless of the size of the company.
>
> This is the last I'll post on this, but feel free to continue
> debating if it entertains you.
>
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