Indeed, LRE changes the fundamental economics of broadband provisioning for the hotel and hospitality space. No longer must guests squander their time waiting for data to download or suffer with limited or no access to corporate files or high-end content such as multimedia or streaming video. With LRE, they have immediate access to even the largest multimedia and video files. Concurrently, service providers and hotel owners gain their greatest new revenue opportunity in years. While enough to send simple e-mail, these links are good for little else.
Access is cumbersome, yielding very slow downloads.
In short, dial-up networking fails to meet virtually any of the requirements needed today by demanding corporate and vacation travelers. Travelers must be able to simply plug in their laptops and have immediate high-bandwidth access. They also require access from all other areas of the hotel. Moreover, dial-up delivers little benefit to the hotel itself. For instance, most travelers access the Internet through local phone numbers, providing almost no financial reward to the hotel.