I am sitting here in my room tonight at the Marriott Marquis. The room is quite nice, and it is in a good location. Unfortunately I have no wireless internet for my iPad. The signal in the room is nonexistent. If I stand right near the door to the room I can get a signal from the 8th floor lobby, but not in my room. Oddly enough I get a better signal from the New York Times building several blocks away than I do from the hotel I am staying in.
Luckily there is a wired Internet connection. Unfortunately, every time I go to use it I have to call a call center in the Philippines where a helpful tech support person makes adjustments to their network to get the connection working.
So here I am attending the CRM conference and I only have Internet access through a great deal of extra effort. I don't understand why hotels in the rural Philippines or Thailand have a better internet infrastructure and better bandwidth the a hotel in New York City.
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