How To Get (Almost) Free Hotel Wi-Fi at CES 2016

Earlier this week, our team descended on Las Vegas to launch or latest app at the big daddy of tech trade shows, the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES). When we arrived at hotel check-in late Sunday night, we were told that we’d have to pay an additional “Resort Fee” of $30 per night to get in-room Wi-Fi for 2 devices (and $24.95 per additional device). Doing the math for our whole team and their cavalcade of mobile devices, we would have paid north of $1,500 for a week’s worth of high-speed Internet. Lucky for us, we’ve all got Connectify Hotspot running on our laptops.
If you’re one of the 150,000 CES 2016 attendees, or if you’re simply traveling and find yourself in a hotel that charges exorbitant fees for Wi-Fi access, Connectify can save you a bundle. Just download the free Connectify Hotspot software router on your Windows laptop and with just a few clicks you can share any available Internet connection as Wi-Fi with all your devices. Thanks to Connectify Hotspot, we’ve been able to get our whole team online for the duration of #CES2016 on every laptop, tablet, and smartphone we have without paying the hotel’s outrageous fees for 2+ devices, and so can you.

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Hotel Wi-Fi usually wants a room number and a surname typed into a browser page, once per device. Connectify Hotspot lets one Windows laptop do that sign-in and then carry everything else you travelled with.

  • The sign-in page

    Hotel networks hold new devices at a browser login page until someone fills in the form.

  • Devices that cannot sign in

    A Kindle, a smart speaker, a handheld console has no browser to show the login page, so the device never gets past the form.

  • One gateway instead

    Your Windows laptop signs in once and becomes the gateway for the rest. Everything else joins the laptop and skips the form entirely.

A hotel stay lasts longer than one session, so the 60-minute limit in the free version means restarting the hotspot through the evening. PRO removes the limit.

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