Re: [85attendees] Experiment

I will be staying in the Marriott across the street and would be happy to
chat on this subject as well Marc.

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Marc Petit-Huguenin <marc@petit-huguenin.org
> wrote:

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> On 11/04/2012 01:10 PM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote:
> > So, I am on the 12th floor of the Hilton, 33°45'3"N 84°23'2.5" facing
> > 241°SW.
> >
> > If you can see my window from your window and are willing to spend a
> > little bit of time doing some testing, then please contact me on gtalk at
> > petithug@gmail.com.
> >
> > Unfortunately I was not able to bring the powerline adaptors, so that
> will
> > be only point to point testing.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > On 10/28/2012 12:15 PM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote:
> >> 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
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> Professional email: petithug@acm.org
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