Here’s something most hotel owners don’t realize until they’re three vendors deep and four bills in: Marriott’s standard connectivity setup leaves your most critical systems unprotected.
Let me break it down.
If you’re running a franchise managed network, you’re likely paying for 5G cellular failover in several places already:
📡 The Marriott CradlePoint — required by brand standards, with its own cellular backup
📞 Elevator emergency phone lines — separate cellular backup
🏊 Pool phone line — another one
🔥 Fire panel — yet another
That’s potentially 3–4 separate cellular data plans, each with its own monthly fee, managed by different vendors, on different billing cycles.
And here’s the kicker: none of that protects your front desk.
When your internet goes down, your property management system goes offline. Credit card payments stop processing. Guests can’t check in. Your front desk team is left scrambling — and your guests are leaving reviews about it.
The smarter approach? One whole-site 5G failover.
At Ranger IT, we deploy a unified WAN failover solution that covers your entire property — front desk, PMS, payment terminals, all of it — under a single failover connection. No more siloed cellular plans for each device or system. One solution, one bill, full coverage where it actually matters.
The result: you stop paying for four partial solutions and start paying for one complete one — usually at a lower total cost.
Power of M has moved everything to the cloud. That’s powerful — until your internet drops. Then your whole operation stops. Front desk, payments, check-ins. All of it. Gone!
If you’re managing a franchise hotel property and want to see what a modern, consolidated network stack looks like, let’s talk.
