Re: [81attendees] sucky Delta hotel network

On Jul 27, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Warren Kumari wrote:

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> On Jul 27, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Tim Chown wrote:
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>> On 27 Jul 2011, at 05:45, Mark Townsley wrote:
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>>> On Jul 26, 2011, at 11:15 PM, Monty Montgomery wrote:
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>>>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Michael Ko <Michael@huaweisymantec.com> wrote:
>>>>> Have you tried the wired connection using the Ethernet cable in the room?
>>>>> It seems to work fine for me.
>>>> 
>>>> That's what we're trying to use here.  We can get to Google services,
>>>> oddly enough, but almost nothing else.  We're seeing > 50% packet loss
>>>> and latencies in the seconds range.
>>> 
>>> Same here. Quite bad. 
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>> Interesting, I've not seen any significant issues, compared to typical hotel networks.  It certainly seems better first thing in the morning, when I guess less people are online.

I have had decent experience on the 7th floor of the Delta. It is certainly usable for me there.

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>> I managed to watch the German F1 race via BBC iPlayer just fine ... or maybe it was me eating all the bandwidth ;)
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>> Is the Hilton's bandwidth being boosted by additional equipment for the week?
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> Yes, yes it is…
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> I believe that there will be more information presented at the plenary this evening, but you can safely assume that the primary hotel network is alway supplemented / replaced.

The Hilton is plugged into the IETF network. The Delta is not. 

Regards
Marshall

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> Hotel networks are designed assuming that only some (small) fraction of folk will be using is, and that they will be normal users  -- unfortunately IETFers are not normal...
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> W
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>> Tim
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