How does battery life compare?

Also, “XBox Media Extender” is a PC that has movies for an XBox to watch, not an XBox.

The last time I traveled with a “box” the hotel Internet connect (wired) blocked the Roku Netflix box. Think it was by port, but I’ve also seen certain types of traffic blocked on typical ports like 443.

Personally, I use hotel wifi when I can. I’ve hit the 5 gig cap on my ATT 3g card a few times.

The big struggle I had with dropping hotel internet and going to EVDO was my hotel in St. Louis was solid concrete – I barely had one bar in the room. The best signal I could get was down the hall next to a window. So, even relying on EVDO isn’t a guarantee.

I have a nice external antenna for my XU870 (last used in SFO) for when I can’t depend upon the hotel. The closer you get to five bars the better the speed, well most of the time…

The hotel I am in tonight happens to have a Media Device named Azureus on the network. No computers or iTunes libraries though.
Might have to VPN it tonight if it gets crowded. I hate to hook up to the Mogul again. Data Roaming can be a little pricey in Canada.

Families travel with Xbox 360s, PS3s and Wii’s all the time. So I am not surprised to see one on a hotel network. I too often see shared iTunes libraries etc.

I was just visiting my mom at Atwood Lake over the weekend and used my Mogul for tethering. Even with two bars of EV-DO roaming, I was getting fantastic speeds… since I get tethering as part of my plan, I’m content to use it whenever possible.

I was in a pretty nice $$$ hotel in Toronto last night and found 5 shared libraries in iTunes and then my notebook asked me if I wanted to connect with an XBox Media Extender. I immediately went to my network conection and found 3 other connected PC’s, XBoxes whatever!
I immediately disconnected and hooked up to my Mogul to check mail. Roam fees, be damned!
Next question, who brings their XBox 360 to a Hotel?

I usually stick with 3G – hotel WiFi often comes with latency and firewalls that negatively impact.