Angeles city - Wireless hotspots Angeles city - hotels with wireless hotspot in Angeles city for travelers

Traveling north or south in the Philippines - one good spot to make a brake on the way out of country or when arriving into country is Angeles city - more precisely in the neighborhood of Fields Avenue with its many hotels - all nearby airport and Dau bus terminal.

Decreased bandwidth quality since summer 2008 results in decreased wireless hotspot quality in Angeles City

The global crises is a result of lack of motivation to provide quality. Lack of quality in Internet services and thus also in wireless hotspots in hotels also has become obvious in recent months. While a year ago the wireless hotspot quality was acceptable at least in my hotel. The local provider comclark.com has very substantially decreased its overall bandwidth and line quality.

In recent weeks package loss of up to 10% has been repeatedly a daily standard. Such extreme data loss often leads to stalling Internet communications. Page load interrupted, server communication interrupted if you are controlling a remote server as I do.

In the age of DSL we have speeds like dial up !

ISP bandwidth often varies between 2-5 Kbps - sometimes 10-30 Kbps and rarely a bandwidth of 70-90 Kbps. The bandwidth purchased was the "Exceed 3500" - plan with "Upto" 1.5 Mbps for P3500/month. That should be plenty for a medium size hotel with a dozen or more guests using now and then a laptop for Internet activities via wireless hotspot. The actual hotel connection is most of the time far below subscription limits / promises. But of course subscription promises all are "UP TO" ... leaving all legal space to reduce below acceptable without legal consequences. In recent 3 weeks there have been daily occurrences with stalling connections, hours of bandwidth far below 10Kbps and hours of bandwidth below or in the range of 2-5 Kbps. Just like in good old dial up times .

This ongoing decrease in comclark provider quality may make all those comclark connected hotels useless for Internet work. Digitelone as an alternate ISP has been nothing better the past many years. Leaves as only option PLDT. Only a few hotels are currently using PLDT.

If internet connectivity via wireless hotspot in your room is important, then make sure you get written assurance from your hotel that you actually HAVE a stable and working wireless connection in your room. You definitely HAVE to make sure that you get a hotel room within the range of a wireless hotspot when making your hotel room reservation. It is common that only a few rooms have a wireless signal.

As a result of the recent decrease in Internet access quality in Angeles City, I have decided after more than 2 years staying at America Hotel, to move these days away from the hotel and also away from Angeles to find a more suitable location with a working wireless connection in the hotel room. May be a beach location ....

America Hotel still is a nice hotel with friendly management. However sometimes to be friendly is insufficient to have a pleasant and successful active life. Sometimes friendliness is but the framework, the very basement on to offer efficient professional and progressive services.

Conclusion - hotel wireless hotspot situation Angeles City

If Internet connectivity is substantial for your life or work, then Angeles may only be what it is: A temporary arrival or departure city to move onward into beautiful island locations. There are several Internet cafes offering sometimes 24/7 connectivity for simple eMailing now and then. Else, for all IT professionals it is time to reorient and find better wireless locations.

God bless

hans