More and more businesses are counting on time spent out of the office, whether it means hiring a staff that lives in far-flung locations to find the best talent or spending more time on the road for conferences. Meanwhile, travel for business has never been more stressful, with epic delays in airports and train stations now a given, expensive and rising costs of fuel, and traffic clogging many interstate. The last thing that anyone who is on the road for business wants to deal with when they finally reach the relative sanctuary of their hotel room is a wild goose chase for wireless internet, but this is too often what happens. Either the hotel has a sub-par Wi-Fi network set up, the person at the front desk can’t fix things, or something’s just going wrong–and at the worst time possible.
With all of the snags in travel and technology on the road, both businesses and their employees have a couple of options to choose from. They can either accept the roadblocks and find a way to resolve problems during normal business hours, they can spend significantly more money on hotels where these problems don’t occur as much, or they can find a better technology that can serve employees on the road and in the office equally well. Considering that the first two options are improbable and expensive, a search for better technology has been a leading concern for many forward-thinking businesses who are hoping to make life on the road a little less stressful.
For most business owners, a fast solution to the stresses of dealing with less-than-stellar technology on the road is investing in WiMax, which allows for the exact same internet, just as reliable and speedy as ever, no matter if your employee is sitting in the office or in a hotel across the country. Workers who spend a lot of time traveling also find themselves more content to go on the road, knowing that there will be less time spent frantically trying to find a Kinko’s or internet cafe at odd hours to prepare last-minute details to presentations. And for anyone who get stuck in an airport for hours on end, the free wireless offered is usually bogged down with thousands and thousands of other frustrated travelers, so using WiMax means that it’s equally simple to keep your family and your employer updated about the situation.
But the ease and options of a truly wireless internet aren’t just beneficial for those who are out on the road. Many businesses are finding that it is much simpler to have a form of the internet that is just as fast as it is highly mobile, especially when so much of contemporary business is being wired and understanding the latest technology and how to implement it towards just about any job around. With the ability to keep an entire company online, no matter where they go in the country, a business is prepared to find new creative ways to integrate technology and work, while ensuring that there are no missed signals or dropped emails just due to the fact that sometimes, a bad connection or a faulty network can lead to some serious miscommunication.
Sometimes, hitting the road can come with its fair share of problems or frustrations. Because of the fact that so many people expect to be able to get online from their work travels or their vacation, the times when the internet is less than responsive can elicit some serious hand-wringing. And you know, everyone is guilty of this at some point or another. It makes sense that you might laugh about the idea of someone being angry about sending email from a tropical beach, but whether you are on a romantic getaway in Maui and need to be able to get online, or are simply trying to connect while on business vacation in Portland, it makes sense to be a bit cranky when wireless internet doesn’t work, or you can’t find an ethernet cord in your hotel room.
The truth is that some of the biggest travel complaints could be solved rather quickly if people stopped looking to their Wi-Fi as the solution to all of their connectivity problems. When it comes to wireless as most people are used to experiencing it, the truth is that the technology in place is not the best out there. And this means more chances for failure, and more disappointments. But with new innovations on the horizon, including the new WiMax technology, you can avert most disasters associated with trying to get online from the road. Here are five typical travel complaints that can be solved or made more tolerable if you switch to the new way of Wi-Fi.
1. The signal that keeps cutting out. With regular wireless internet, this is a problem of distance. The signal is going to drop in and out because you are further away from the router, and unless you move a lot closer to it, this will keep happening. So heading down to the business center might help, but if you are in pajamas and want to stay that way, it’s one more reason to switch to the new world of Wi-Fi, rather than dealing with the old guard.
2. The signal that isn’t. For all of those times that the hotel says you have wireless, but the network never shows up. Instead of spending an evening in your room arguing with the front desk via telephone, simply accept that even if they think there is a signal for you, there just isn’t going to be, due to router troubles. But if you have your very own portable network that travels where you do, this will no longer be a concern.
3. The internet cafe. Sure, it can be fun to head to an internet cafe, but most of the time, you’d rather be spending your vacation outdoors in sunlight, or your work time someplace other than where people are frantically trying to play online games. If you have WiMax, the signal comes with you no matter where you go, so you can turn any cafe into the internet cafe of your choice, easy.
4. The slow or lagging shared connection. When too many people get on a network that is based on a regular router, then you are going to see the signal slow to a crawl. It’s just how things happen to work. But if you get away from that network model and move to something that is national, and based on a stronger and sturdier presence, then you’ll see no more problems. With the new Wi-Fi, you’re using a 4G national network at the same time of thousands, and your downloads are staying just as speedy.
5. Wireless internet at airports. Sometimes, free wireless in airports can work great–and other times, if a lot of people are delayed and all using it at the same time, it can be a nightmare. Excuse yourself from the crowd with the new version of wireless, and the only problem you’ll have is finding a place to charge your laptop so you can keep puttering around on the world wide web.