In this report, a hotel judged as having adequate Wi-Fi must provide an expected download speed of at least 3 Mbps and an upload speed of 500 kbps.

Hotel Wifi Test pointed that the free Wi-Fi percentage is calculated as a ratio of hotels that offer free in-room Wi-Fi to all hotels for which the Wi-Fi price structure and availability is known. Hotel Wi-Fi Test said, hotel Wi-Fi is a synonym for in-room Wi-Fi; therefore, hotels that offer free Wi-Fi only in public areas are not counted as hotels with free Wi-Fi.

Wi-Fi quality is expressed by the percentage of hotels that offer adequate Wi-Fi quality in a given geographical area. This type of ranking is easy to understand, and it makes perfect sense from a practical standpoint. For most travelers, having super-fast and consistently stable Wi-Fi is a great bonus, but their first priority is ensuring that basic quality expectations for Internet access are met.

Also, this is a more robust approach than measuring the average speed, as such calculations can be misleading because of a few of hotels that have extremely fast Wi-Fi and many hotels with horrible Wi-Fi. The median speed is a bit better for this purpose than the average speed, but it can still give misleading expectations.

Hotel Wi-Fi Test said that they compare hotel Wi-Fi in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Other parts of the world don’t have enough tests recorded to be included in this comparison.