The Internet connection here didn’t improve much even at after midnight, so it wasn’t the peak hour traffic that was a problem… I called LodgeNet and the guy had no clue and told me he would work on it. I was tired anyway so I went to sleep. Woke up this morning , same thing. Called them again, and I connected my PowerBook to the ethernet directly just so he could ping it. Turn out the Airport Express was the problem. So I thanked him and opened up Airport Admin Util, and I noticed the Airport Express itself has a 10.10 IP address, the hotel DHCP server also assigns 10.10 address, so that didn’t look right. So I pretty much enabled the Distribute IP addresses feature in the Airport Express, which basically turns on its DHCP server, and I had it distribute 198.168 address… rebooted the Airport Express and wala, fast Internet connection again!
The hotel must’ve changed something yesterday, as the previous Airport Express configuration worked before, and I’ve been here for more than 10 days. hmm…