On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:43:44 GMT, Jay Honeck wrote:

Hey Jay,

1. Does anyone know what the average speed modem is being used by the 70% of
people still using dial-up?

56K would be the best speed one can get on dialup, but in reality, 44K to
52K is what I get on my laptop.

3. I have pared our opening page back to practically nothing, yet it STILL
seems to be taking too long to open. I added a new "hit" counter
yesterday -- could that be slowing it down so much? (It's
www.AlexisParkInn.com if you want to take a gander at it.) How long is it
taking to open on your computer?

Took less then three seconds on my DSL hookup. I get 300K per second
download.

How many of you guys actually make real-time, on-line hotel reservations?
My gut feel has always been that we would eventually have to jump on this
band-wagon, because more and more people are booking on-line. However, this
newly released figure, showing such low high-speed internet usage, really
makes me wonder if people are actually using on-line bookings much, or if
this is a tiny minority using it only occasionally.

I would never book a hotel online AGAIN. I did this once, printed out the
confirmation number, and showed up at 1:00 p.m. and hotel was booked solid.

I would have understood had I been real late arriving, but I did confirm
with my credit card to allow for a late arrival. Because it was a small
town in Mississippi, I ended up going 15 miles to another town to get
overnight accomodations.

I also found out, the "Central" reservation computer of this hotel does not
always interface timely with the local hotel computers, that causes
overbookings as well.

Allen