Sometimes a hotel's lobby is better serviced their hotel rooms. Or maybe a business centre (in the hotel).

Whatever the solution, make sure to mention the wifi speed in your review. It's usually extremely hard to find in advance so any review helps.

There is no magic bullet, no one wifi to rule them all. When you travel you are always at the mercy of the local ISPs, hotels with too many guests for their broadband pipe and overloaded cellular networks. You have to modify your data usage habits to match the environment. Or change your travel habits to match your data needs.

Can you also elaborate on the use cases involving your work? Do you need high-speed and/or low-latency access? Which among these is/are what you do - copyreading/writing, SSH access, uploading articles, uploading big pictures? I guess, potential answers to your question will greatly depend on these.

One point: Don't forget about good old Ethernet. At some - not all - hotel rooms, there's an old-fashioned ethernet port on the wall. (As well as the wifi.) By way of example at the Shangrila in HK. if your laptop is old-fashioned enough that it has a ethernet port, you can often get a fantastic surprise by just plugging in, and hence getting fantastic speed.

You might want to start with the fact that your job is on the internet, because until that line you sound like somebody complaining about a slow connection because you just want to watch Netflix and get on Facebook (or StackExchange).

@abrahamdsl Good point. Updated.

@JoeBlow That's a good catch! I use 2016 MacBook but I think there exists a Eithernet-to-TypeC cable.

@LightnessRacesinOrbit Turns out he meant bits, see his latest edit. I can see how 200 kilobits per second would be annoying. It's pretty hard to get work done on that.

@LightnessRacesinOrbit Plenty of people use hotel Wi-Fi for work. Your contempt is undeserved.

@ChrisHayes: We're talking about work? Okay then: I weekly use hotel Wi-Fi for work too... when it is available. When it is not available, I do offline things. Read a document, write some notes, brainstorm ideas. I cannot imagine what work the OP cannot "cope" with at 200Kbps. This still smells of first world problems to me.

@LightnessRacesinOrbit The fact that you can't "imagine" it doesn't mean you need to leave a snarky comment. My work requires me to VPN and use remote desktop software, which would be completely unusable at 200Kbps (believe me, I've tried it). Dismissive responses like "first world problem! put your phone down!" are unhelpful.

@ChrisHayes: I use a VPN and RDP over that speed wifi all the time, and it works just fine. In fact, I remember using RDP quite productively with a 56k modem. You might want to investigate whether you have some other more fundamental problem with your systems, causing the behaviour you see. Yet all this OP wants is "The minimum requirement is a stable access to GitHub and Stack Overflow and fast google search responses." for which 200kbps should be more than enough if they simply learn a little patience. (cont.)

(cont.) My imagination may only be my imagination, but as a senior software architect it's a well-informed one. As for being "unhelpful", I choose to believe that a wider goal of teaching people when their supposed problem is actually mostly in their head, is helpful in itself. You are of course free to disagree! I am now going outside because it's a beautiful day, and I hope you have a good one too.

@Fiksdal: Sure! It's something some of us like to do once in a while. I highly recommend it for you and your friends. :)

@Fiksdal: Sounds right! Ease in. It's a big change.

@LightnessRacesinOrbit Some comments have been deleted and I might have not caught up with all of them, but I don't see your comment is offensive or dismissive.

@Blaszard: My original one has been nuked and I don't remember my exact words, but I didn't think it was any of those things either. Big sigh from me!

@LightnessRacesinOrbit Yeah, since someone said it is dismissive, I just wanted to notice it. But as I read all of them during my sleep/wake-up interval, I don't remember it that much :=)

@Fiksdal The wording StackExchange is quite confusing in these scenarios, as it does leave the original comments behind rather than "moving" them in the sense of deleting the originals. It's meant to encourage any further conversations to happen in this chat room, rather than actually removing the original thread.