We are staying at a hotel that offers broadband Internet connections in the rooms. The daily price is not cheap, to put it mildly, but that’s a small irritation next to the trick the hotel and its access provider — an outfit called iBAHN — play on people who travel with more than one laptop: requiring a separate signup for each computer rather than a rate covering the room.

Unfortunately, this is a fairly common scheme, designed to extract every last penny from people who are already paying through the teeth. I let the iBAHN “customer support” person know how I felt about this. He was totally indifferent, but at least he didn’t deny it. I also told a hotel manager that this was the kind of thing travelers especially loathe. He didn’t seem terribly interested, either. Read the rest of this entry »