Re: [85attendees] Experiment

None of the rooms in the marriott face the Hilton... I surveyed several of the surrounding buildings for the 2005 meeting which was across the street and my basic observation is good luck... 

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On Oct 28, 2012, at 12:15, Marc Petit-Huguenin <marc@petit-huguenin.org> wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> I would like to do some experiments to check the feasibility of extending the
> IETF network to hotels that are not directly connected to the meeting venue.
> Last time in Vancouver my room was at the Sheraton, with the usual crappy
> Internet connection that seems the norm in all hotels around the world.  That
> room was in direct line of sight of the Hyatt, so it made me thinking that it
> could have been possible to establish a wireless link between the two hotels.
> 
> This time I have a room at the main hotel, so I'll bring with me a pair of
> Ubiquiti Nanostation LOCO M5, and try to verify connectivity with as many
> hotels in line of sight as possible.  Obviously we cannot start to coordinate
> this until I know where my room will be at the Hilton, but I'll send an email
> Sunday afternoon after check-in.
> 
> Meanwhile there is one thing that people interested can help with.  If we
> manage to establish line-of-sight, we'll still have to solve the problem of
> redistributing the IETF network inside the remote hotels to the IETF
> participants.  A friend of mine tried using Powerline Ethernet (Netgear)
> without any success in a Westin hotel (even between rooms on the same floor),
> but we probably need to test more hotels to see if this really cannot work, so
> I'll also bring with me 4 powerline adapters.  Other solutions that can be
> tried are Ethernet over Coax (using the TV distribution system) or Ethernet
> over the phone system (HomePNA).  Another solution is a mesh wireless network,
> but that probably requires access stations with dual radios.
> 
> Anyway if you have this kind of hardware and can bring it with you, perhaps we
> can do more testing and find a workable solution for IETF 86.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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> Marc Petit-Huguenin
> Email: marc@petit-huguenin.org
> Blog: http://blog.marc.petit-huguenin.org
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