Comment by tonymet

14 hours ago

I clone my home WiFi SSID with my travel router so when we arrive at the hotel all of our devices auto connect without having to configure the consent / captive WiFi screen.

It’s also nice to control VPN and DNS from one place , in case the hotel is doing DNS or IP filtering.

And quite a few hotels still offer wired Ethernet , which helps performance.

Hotel wifi is often hilariously slow compared to plugging my travel router into an in-room ethernet socket. From spotty <10mbps to often a full uncontended gigabit.

Makes video conferencing and large downloads usable.