Re: [76attendees] Warnings re: Oriental Hotel

[Jared Mauch <[e-mail]>]

On Nov 6, 2009, at 7:31 PM, Keith Davidson wrote:

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> Paul Hoffman wrote:
>> At 4:04 PM -0500 11/6/09, Samuel Weiler wrote:
>>> The Oriental Hotel has turned off their air conditioning for the  
>>> winter.  I'm finding my room too warm for comfortable sleeping.
>> FWIW, there is still air conditioning in the Mitsui Garden, but the  
>> lowest it goes is 20C, which is too warm for many people.
>
> Sunroute hotel air conditioning not working, but at least I can open  
> the window, but still too warm for sleeping. But the view over the  
> river and the Peace Park is great.
>
>>> Also, the in-room net is wired instead of wireless.  And it's  
>>> NAT'ed.
>> Ditto at the Mitusi Garden, but that should not be a problem for  
>> many people.
>
> Sunroute hotel also has wired only, but a totally open network, so I  
> have plugged in a wireless access point and can use both laptop and  
> iphone wi-fi simultaneously. And btw I have configured the access  
> point to be totally open so if you see an access point that has my  
> name attached, feel free to connect through it...

Also upside: Native IPv6 in the room :)

> Only downsides to the Suroute hotel - my room is the size of a small  
> shoebox, and the chair is too close to the floor.

My room seems similar to any other I have had in Japan.