Source: Hotelwifitest.com

Hotel WiFi Test has released a new report that ranks cities, countries, and world regions by WiFi quality. Two characteristics of hotel WiFi are considered: the quality of the WiFi and whether in-room WiFi is free.

WiFi Quality is expressed by the percentage of hotels that offer adequate WiFi quality in a given geographical area. This type of ranking is easy to understand, and it makes perfect sense from a practical standpoint. For most travelers, having super-fast and consistently stable WiFi is a great bonus, but their first priority is ensuring that basic quality expectations for Internet access are met.

In this report, a hotel judged as having adequate WiFi must provide an expected download speed of at least 3 Mbps (the Netflix recommendation for SD-quality streaming) and an upload speed of 500 kbps (the Skype recommendation for high-quality non-HD video calling).

The Free WiFi percentage is calculated as a ratio of hotels that offer free in-room WiFi to all hotels for which the WiFi price structure and availability is known. In our view, hotel WiFi is a synonym for in-room WiFi; therefore, hotels that offer free WiFi only in public areas are not counted as hotels with free WiFi.

Key takeaways:

  • InEurope, it is 33% more likely that a hotel has adequate WiFi than inthe United States; but inthe United States, it is 14% more likely that a hotel will offer free in-room WiFi.
  • Asia is at the top when it comes to hotel WiFi quality (49.5%), but at the bottom for the percentage of hotels offering free in-room WiFi (61.2%).
  • The United States is only in the 21st percentile for WiFi quality; 79% of countries have better hotel WiFi.
  • South Korea is the leader in hotel WiFi quality (92%) by a healthy margin in 7.1 percentage points to the second best country (Japan).
  • The United States:Portland is in solid first place with a 10 percentage point gap over the second-place city (Seattle) in terms of WiFi quality. It also has one the highest percentages of hotels offering free in-room WiFi (86.7%).
  • The United States: The chances of getting a hotel with adequate WiFi are almost three times higher inPortland than inAtlanta.

The full version of the report is available at http://www.hotelwifitest.com/reports/148814/

About Hotel WiFi Test

With hotels tested in more than 4,000 cities worldwide and more than 250 hotels tested in New York (Manhattan) alone, Hotel WiFi Test is the leader in collecting, analyzing, and distributing hotel Wi-Fi data from around the world. It was listed as one of the 50 Best Websites for 2014 by Time magazine. Data on hotels' Wi-Fi quality is crowd-sourced, processed, and then made available for free to all travelers on hotelwifitest.com and on third-party travel websites via the content API. The company releases quarterly reports about different aspects of hotel Wi-Fi. The latest report ranks cities, countries, and world regions by their hotels' Wi-Fi quality.