IM Access in Hotels
I spend 3-6 months of the year in hotels. My experience in my current hotel is that:
- Skype works
- Yahoo! IM works
- Microsoft Messenger sometimes works
- iChat/AIM never works
This is pretty typical in hotels I stay at. What are other people's experiences?
Comments (3)
Tim on Jan. 25, 2007:
Out of curiosity, have you tried Jabber/GTalk?
dda on Jan. 26, 2007:
msn rerouted through port 80 seems to work for me. Never had a problem since I enabled that. I've had less luck with iChal, but did manage to connect, sometimes. GTalk works, and if the port is blocked, I use it via the web interface anyway :-)
I've been using Adium for quite a while now, and so far I am happy with it.
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Last Modified: Jan. 25, 2007
Author: James Tauber
Anthony B. Coates on Jan. 25, 2007:
I mainly use Skype when travelling, and I've never had a problem. I've had more problems with hotels blocking port 25, which can make it hard to send e-mail if you have control over the port your SMTP host uses.
Cheers, Tony.