[eetus]

I've been living in Airbnbs in Latin America and Europe while working remotely. One of the major challenges is making sure the Airbnb has good wifi.

A lot of hosts won't know what mbps means or will say something like "I'm sure the wifi is good. We did a video call a couple of months ago with Aunt Sally in London ..." It's easy to eliminate these options, but you have to message them, etc.

The worst is when the host is living in another unit on another floor or next to you. They'll do a speedtest for their place and the speed will look great, but in reality, the Airbnb will have much worse internet (in one case it was about 100x difference than advertised). Sometimes, they won't even buy a separate router for the Airbnb and claim the speed in their apartment as the speed for the Airbnb.

[aleph_minus_one]

> A lot of hosts won't know what mbps means or will say something like "I'm sure the wifi is good. We did a video call a couple of months ago with Aunt Sally in London ..."

A good WiFi network does not imply that the WiFi network is connected to a fast internet connection. ;-)

[eetus]

I know what you mean, but usually for us the problem is the opposite. The internet connection is fast, but the WiFi is horrible. I've learned to always carry an ethernet cable, but that doesn't solve everything.

[dietr1ch]

I second this. Many hosts will say something "netflix works fine for me", but that's likely cached nearby and is super latency and jitter tolerant. And damned too if they don't say that, it'll be terrible.