Re: [72attendees] In-room network

Antoin Verschuren <antoin.verschuren@sidn.nl> Tue, 29 July 2008 10:07 UTC

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On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Vint Cerf wrote:

> I have not been able to run iCHAT successfully, nor build VPN connections - 
> first noticing this about 10 pm on Monday night local time.
>
> File transfers were operating at about 13 KB/s but came to a grinding halt 
> after about 50% of a 1.5 MB file was transferred. Eventually the transfer 
> completed.
>
> I am in the 16XX room block.

I'm in the 15xx room block, having this 4 port switch/DSL router on my 
desk serving both IPTV and Internet connection.
Appart from a 10 second problem when I entered the room on Saturday (I had 
to unplug the IPTV for me to get an DHCP request through, and get an IP 
address. Pluging the IPTV back in continued to work for me) the network 
remained reasonable for a hotel network.

I've been able to set up OpenVPN over UDP port 1194, have not tried TCP 
yet, and it allows me to stream UDP with a "reasonable" quality. 512 k 
during busy times, 2048 k during quiet times. (Just testing, not 
abusing the network :-) only some hickups).
I have been able to set up SSL VPN, no issues.
I have been using jabber, skype, TCP streaming to watch some news back 
home, no problems.

There have been some hickups in the IPTV system on sunday though, causing 
the TV to freeze and switch off every 15 minutes.

So even though I'm quite a high demanding customer, I'm reasonable happy.
I think a working in-room network should be not an extra, but a 
requirement, but I realise it's not that easy for our crowd. Be happy it's 
an IETF meeting and not an ICANN, where in-room Internet access is not 
even considdered.

And as Kurtis said, if you think you can do better, please prove so.
Finding a venue for 1200+ people in Europe is hard enough allready.
Just my 2p to get things clear on what's working and what's not.

Antoin
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