Doc Searls (again) points out one of the ironies of travel: network connectivity seems to be related to how much you pay for the hotel and connectivity - but not in the way you might think:

I'm finally in my room, plugged into the hotel ethernet, watching it upload photos at a rate of one every few seconds. The bandwidth is 7.05Mbps down and 1.53Mbps up. The hotel, a Ramada Limited, is beat to crap and in a scary neighborhood. (The reception counter is behind bulletproof glass, with arrangements transacted through one of those bowls under the botttom edge.) But the Internet is free. And it works real well.

I've noticed the exact same thing. The better the class of the hotel, the worse the network service is (and, generally speaking, the more expensive it is). It's getting pretty tiresome to deal with that.