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Hunker Down

Continuing this series on different scenarios that might play out with the hotel, I have to address the unfortunate circumstance that is a real possibility. I have (and the trial team I was working with) had to suffer with this before and I can tell you that it will motivate you to ensure that it doesn’t ever happen again. What I’m talking about is having to work in a place that doesn’t have enough bandwidth, and you can’t get any access from anywhere else. It makes me shudder just to think about how many ways this can be a bad thing. Let me explain some of the ways this is so undesirable. You’re sharing the hotels internet access with everyone staying there. You don’t know who any of these people are, to be honest. There could be a really good hacker type, or even more than one, on the same network as you. You’ll be competing with guests for the bandwidth too. In hotels, evenings are just awful regarding internet speed because everyone is getting logged on so they can video c...