Re: [67ATTENDEES] Anyone get the 'broadband' connection in the IETFhotel

Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
> T.J., David
>
> on 2006-11-07 17:38 David Kessens said the following:
>   
>> T.J.,
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 05:15:54PM -0800, T.J. Kniveton wrote:
>>     
>>> I am on the 10th floor in the East tower, and if I open my balcony 
>>> window (nice weather), I can sometimes connect to the ietf wlan 
>>> network..probably from the West tower LOS.
>>>       
>> I am on the 11th floor and I have a choice of open networks available
>> using my somewhat higher-powered 802.11b card without any need to open
>> balcony windows.
>>     
>
> And I'm on the 11th floor, and have an AirportExpress running.  I'll
> change it to open, too.

Speaking from experience - let folks know the SSID and a WPA 
passphrase... modern 802.11b cards support at least WPA, and most 
current 802.11g devices support WPA2. If folks coordinate SSID's, Keys, 
and Channels, we can expand the 'net for others.

It's one thing to share bandwidth, however limited - it's another to 
just keep things open. My last experience with an open WiFi AP was that 
someone started up a bittorrent client, and shut down my DSLAN access 
within about 15 seconds. So now I do lock things down a bit.

The Apple Airport Express is a nice travel router, another is 
Cisco-Linksys' WTR54GS (this is what I carry)...

Tim

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Tim Thome
Systems Design Engineer, Senior Staff
Kyocera Telecommunications Research Corp.
San Diego, CA