Re: [81attendees] sucky Delta hotel network (and bufferbloat)

[Monty Montgomery <[e-mail]>]

> Sigh.
> I used the network in the Delta quite a lot and didn't
> experience much of a problem, but kept my expectations set for
> "hotel" rather than "IETF".  I also mostly used the wired
> Ethernet -- it may be just anecdotal, but I've generally found
> that wired Ethernet is much less likely to be problematic than
> WiFi if neither is set up by experts.

I will note that for four of the six nights I was there, the wired
ethernet in all three of our groups' rooms at the Delta (on three
different floors) was unusable, with ping indicating packet loss over
50% and latencies in the seconds range during the periods where there
was any connectivity at all.  Wireless obviously didn't work either.
I camped at other hotels and various coffeeshops to read mail (we had
a fourth at the Palace Royal; wireless there was fine).

Several folks have repeated the 'just use the wired ethernet' advice,
and I'm sure it ~worked for some.  For the Xiph contingent at the
Delta it was somewhere between badly impacted and nonfunctional for
the entire stay.

Monty