Steps Toward Achieving Hospitality Internet Service Solutions

By Christine Barnes


In the past, people would have paid to stay at luxurious hotels because of the good food and good service. Nowadays, the advancement of technology has caused wireless networking to be the top priority. So many things are accessed online and it is necessary for every hotel to have the good Wi-Fi connection. The article elaborates on hospitality internet service solutions.

Considering that this network is wireless, there may be a lot of things affecting it that normally would not affect fiber optic cables. Therefore, a survey should be conducted every two years just to ensure that everything is working as it is supposed to. This kind of maintenance allows you to pin point the problem and fix it a lot faster.

After the survey is complete, you should start looking at who to hire to put the Wi-Fi in place. A good company should be able to take into account the findings of the survey and identify which strategic positions the Wi-Fi should be placed. They should also be able to work with the provided budget and offer advice on which networks to use.

Upgrading or installing the wireless network in the hotel takes time and may be disruptive if not well planned for. Before having a schedule made on when to start the installation process, you should consider the kind of hotel it is. For example, some hotels have a peak and low season and therefore maintenance is usually done in the low season.

Guests want assurance that their information will be safe. This means that no one in the network should be able to access or even know what guests are using the internet for. This means that security should be a top priority for the management. They can, for example, use the virtual local area networks, (VLANs) which make sure that there is no communication even among devices on the same network.

All hotels want their guests to have the best possible experiences. The good coverage connection is a big part of the good experience. However, the guest may end up being really disappointed if their device is unable to connect to the coverage. To avoid such scenarios, it is best to have an IT team on call or the people who installed the whole system on standby.

You should make sure your bandwidth is of the charts. Bandwidth is the speed at which a device can connect to the coverage. The faster, the better. However, the higher the speed, the more expensive it is. A hotel can manage such by using content filtering and tiered pricing. Content filtering is disabling the websites that use a lot of data while tiered pricing is including the internet payment in the room price.

There could possibly be nothing worse than the coverage crashing and paralyzing all online activities for the guests and the staff. This can be avoided by load balancing. This means that the hotel should have different routers so that they can be able to handle a specific number of people at once. This way, the chances of breaking down are slim to none.




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