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Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> Wed, 27 July 2011 15:09 UTC

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On Jul 27, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Tim Chown wrote:

> 
> On 27 Jul 2011, at 05:45, Mark Townsley wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jul 26, 2011, at 11:15 PM, Monty Montgomery wrote:
>> 
>>> 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. 
> 
> 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 managed to watch the German F1 race via BBC iPlayer just fine ... or maybe it was me eating all the bandwidth ;)
> 
> Is the Hilton's bandwidth being boosted by additional equipment for the week?

Yes, yes it is…

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.

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...

W
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