The New York Times ran a story two days ago, also picked up by Glenn Fleishman over at  WiFi Net News , about how hard it is sometimes to get connected at hotels over their WiFi networks. Some travelers even report a failure rate of 50%, in comparison with 5% in wired connections. Support is usually directed to a hotline run by th…

No pun intended, honestly, but Tony Smith’s article on  The Register’s RegHardware  ‘ How to get your Wi-Fi working again , while making a nice and broad effort at examining the problems plaguing WiFi nowadays, and reviewing several options to improve your experience around WiFi, also uses somewhat pseudoscientific methods to meas…