Hotel WiFi - or - How to Fail and Making Money

I'm in LA for most of the week doing some knowledge transfer to and fro from a colleague of mine down here. I am, as one would expect, staying in a hotel.Like almost all hotels this comes with WiFi.However, this is some shitty WiFi.They have an offer when you with authenticate to the captive portal to upgrade to something better. I figured that the standard is good enough.Nope. It's like a throwback to 2003.I'm here on business so I figured I'll upgrade to the better WiFi and just expense it.Ok, next question: now that I dismissed the dialog that prompted to upgrade, how do I get back?I needed to call up the provider's 800 number (pedants: 877 number) to have them log me out so I could re-log in.The fail: making it hard to give your money over to them!

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