Actually, 200 guests on a 100MBit connection is probably not a problem. At a nearby university they have a 100MBit connection for 1000 students plus teachers, and it holds up reasonably well. (Of course, unless the hotel bought an overbooked connection with only a theoretical max speed of 100mbit)
Even though we're a major vacation destination, people seem to want to stay in and watch movies or play online games on their expensive vacations. There's basically always a minority of users ruining the connection for everyone else.
Watching movies and playing games away from home does sound like a nice vacation to me.
Ruining is subjective - many hotel wifi networks were provisioned for 2002 style access of web and email, not 2012 where one's mom streams gigs of video. This is why I appreciate the move to free basic wifi and paid premium wifi at some hotels.
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Actually, 200 guests on a 100MBit connection is probably not a problem. At a nearby university they have a 100MBit connection for 1000 students plus teachers, and it holds up reasonably well. (Of course, unless the hotel bought an overbooked connection with only a theoretical max speed of 100mbit)
Even though we're a major vacation destination, people seem to want to stay in and watch movies or play online games on their expensive vacations. There's basically always a minority of users ruining the connection for everyone else.
Watching movies and playing games away from home does sound like a nice vacation to me.
Ruining is subjective - many hotel wifi networks were provisioned for 2002 style access of web and email, not 2012 where one's mom streams gigs of video. This is why I appreciate the move to free basic wifi and paid premium wifi at some hotels.
If they all started watching HD YouTube videos all night long, would the link be saturated?