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In response to
"I think I saw someone say that some conventions go up to $5K for those fees -- nm"
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Beryllium
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That's a bit misleading or confusing.
Posted by
Mop (aka rburriel)
Oct 3 '14, 22:43
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That $5,000 isn't for wifi in your hotel room, lobby or restaurant. That's for exhibitors on a convention floor. You go to the Intel booth and Intel wants you to see something and they open up a laptop and go to a web page. That laptop needs internet connectivity. What they're charging you for, usually, is a hardwire Ethernet connection. Wifi - even if it wasn't blocked - is probably highly unreliable on a convention floor with thousands of people walking around, all of them with their own wireless devices.
What I suspect Marriott was trying to prevent was an exhibitor buying one wired connection and then setting up a wireless router so that all the laptops in his booth worked.
This harkens back to the early days of high speed internet into your home where Comcast would say "Yeah, we'll give you high speed internet, but that's for only one computer. If you set up a router, that's gonna cost you extra." Of course, that's an absurdity today. And convention organizers have just woken up to that reality as well.
Mop
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