Telkonet's technology is well out of the pilot- project stage. You can actually check into more than 100 hotels today that will offer you, at check-in, a little canvas bag that contains a power-plug modem. One end of the device sticks into any wall plug in the hotel, and the other has an Ethernet cable that plugs into your laptop. Connect the two, and voila -- you are on the Web, surfing at speeds faster than a typical home cable or DSL line, with much more reliability than Wi-Fi and none of Wi-Fi's configuration headaches. I made a spot-check by phone of a Quality Inn in Surprise, Ariz., that is listed on Telkonet's Web site as a customer, and the front-desk clerk said the service worked well