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Posted on 10/15/25 at 8:05 pm to Freezus22
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Some hotels may be behind on their smart TV upgrade due to cable wiring throughout the hotel. Streaming capabilities for a hotel that has not upgraded to CAT6 could cause issues with picture/streaming quality depending on the size of the property.
You can do it with DOCSIS over coax. Many hotels do it that way if pulling cable isn’t an option. They will need to fix heavily spliced areas or ancient coax in what would become the backbone, but DOCSIS became viable well over a decade ago. The reality of pulling CAT6/CAT6A is you need space for IDFs, and the rooms need to be out of service to pull and terminate, like during a renovation. With renovation cycles ever extending due to changing business travel habits, it’s even more difficult to justify. It’s easier to run digital TV over coax and pull a cabling for a half-dozen APs per floor for Internet.
You’re right about the phones for safety. You must be able to call someone in the event of an emergency, so guest rooms will continue to have phones far into the future. However, don’t expect newer handsets. They replaced the 30 to 40 year-old PBX systems with cloud-based solutions where the capital requirements are no longer a problem, and the old two-wire digital handsets still work fine.
Nobody uses the guest room phones anymore, other than to call room service or valet for your car. Hotels used to absolutely gouge guests with charges for local and long-distance calls. That revenue dried up at the turn of the century.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 8:13 pm to BabyTac
A hotel is considered new, until the first guest dies in a room.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 8:18 pm to BabyTac
If you're talking about Netflix, all Marriott properties offer it. Agree that it's crazy that most others don't.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:12 pm to BabyTac
I travel 2-3 weeks a month. About 25% of the ones I stay in have it. Typically stay in $120-160 type hotels in AR and West TN.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:49 pm to BabyTac
Wait, so now you're a COO that stays at fricking holiday inns 2-3 weeks out of a month? 
Could you make up a more pathetic life?
Could you make up a more pathetic life?
Posted on 10/15/25 at 11:28 pm to BabyTac
Stop staying at red roof inn and motel 6 ya loser.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 11:42 pm to BabyTac
Man that’s rough. Living in hotels sucks….
Used to think business travel was cool… until I started doing it.
Much rather my own bed
Used to think business travel was cool… until I started doing it.
Much rather my own bed
Posted on 10/16/25 at 5:46 am to BabyTac
What kind of shite holes are you staying in?
Posted on 10/16/25 at 5:59 am to BabyTac
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I stay in Marriotts or Holiday Inns 2-3 weeks out of the month. While some do, most don’t.
If the doors open to the outside then you don’t get to complain.
Posted on 10/16/25 at 6:12 am to BabyTac
You must be wearing Grindr out
Posted on 10/16/25 at 6:34 am to boogiewoogie1978
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Every one I've stayed in does. Do you mean Motels?
There are some 3 star hotels out there still rocking the 15 year old LCDs
It's more common than you might think
Posted on 10/16/25 at 6:36 am to Btrtigerfan
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The first thing I check is to see if the guest before me left their account logged in.
A lot of people know how to get connected, but knowing how, or remembering, to erase your credentials when you leave is an issue for many.
Also, I suspect that having everyone all of a sudden streaming places a heavier burden on the hotel's internet service. They're all going to need to upgrade to higher speed service.
Posted on 10/16/25 at 6:40 am to BoudreauxsCousin
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You can do it with DOCSIS over coax. Many hotels do it that way if pulling cable isn’t an option. They will need to fix heavily spliced areas or ancient coax in what would become the backbone, but DOCSIS became viable well over a decade ago. The reality of pulling CAT6/CAT6A is you need space for IDFs, and the rooms need to be out of service to pull and terminate, like during a renovation. With renovation cycles ever extending due to changing business travel habits, it’s even more difficult to justify. It’s easier to run digital TV over coax and pull a cabling for a half-dozen APs per floor for Internet.
With the coax solution, will the internet feed from the outside become a bottleneck unless they upgrade to higher speed service?
Posted on 10/16/25 at 6:42 am to BabyTac
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I stay in Holiday Inn
Trashy
Posted on 10/16/25 at 6:45 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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You try to feign as some high society executive and then make a thread like this. Stay in something nicer than a staybridge in your fake life
STRIVER FIGHT
Posted on 10/16/25 at 6:48 am to BabyTac
Why are you asking hotel executive questions to hotel management people?
Posted on 10/16/25 at 7:05 am to BabyTac
I stay at nice places and agree with the OP. Plenty of nice places still have regular cable TVs that are not smart
Posted on 10/16/25 at 7:19 am to AndyJ
Why replace them if they are still working? I am just stating to replace plasmas from 2015 and I run rvs 13-15 hours a day
Posted on 10/16/25 at 7:25 am to BabyTac
You don’t travel much, do you?
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