#swisscom hotel #internet #fail: breaks Google Mail, lousy internet rates, for EUR 18 per day!
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/09
See the images below.
This is what Swisscom hotel internet gets you when you pay them EUR 18 per day.
Swisscom internet has a transparent http proxy that is not so transparent: it breaks Google Mail.
Actually it is low-speed internet; for like EUR 40 a month, I get way more speed at home, with the plus that it always works and always is “high” speed.
Swisscom hotel internet could reach 6 megabit downstream (but it doesn’t), also the upstream is lousy:
What you actually obtain is more like 2 megabit, not 6 megabit.
That download at home takes like 20 minutes at 10 megabit ADSL speed.
This is what they promise (click on the image to enlarge):
#fail
–jeroen (at the Delphi-Tage.de conference)
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