Re: [89attendees] Ethernet jack in Hilton Rooms

I really don't understand all of the complaints...

I just got here and as I said, I'm in the West Tower on the 12th floor 
in a nicely appointed room with a lovely view of buildings being 
constructed. I've got outlets galore (and most work), the ethernet jack 
works and the room seems just the right temperature. I found the IETF 
cookies - they were in one of the drawers (ok maybe just the crumbs).  
All the IETF Cokes were in my mini-fridge and I have a sink, clothes 
line, and an ironing board - who needs a laundry. I even think there is 
a bit-coin ATM in my closet.

Geoff

On 03/04/2014 07:17 AM, John G. Scudder wrote:
> On Mar 4, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Randall Gellens <randy@qti.qualcomm.com> wrote:
>> At 9:29 PM +0000 3/3/14, John G. Scudder wrote:
>>> On Mar 3, 2014, at 8:26 PM, Matt Lepinski <<mailto:mlepinski@gmail.com>mlepinski@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I don't seem to have an Ethernet jack in my hotel room (Floor 5 of the Tower).
>>>>
>>>> I figured I should check with the list before giving up. If others have access to wired Internet in their rooms at the Hilton, then perhaps I am just being foolish and looking in the wrong place.
>>>>
>>> I had to look quite hard to find mine. It was hidden behind a solid part of the desk and obfuscated by a nest of other panels, messy cut coax cable ends, etc. The jack was also covered by a sliding cover plate (which is pretty common around here). Finally, I was fooled for some time by a decoy jack that had the hotel Ethernet wire plugged into it. The decoy was dead, the hidden jack worked.
>>>
>>> If you don't have a decoy jack and hotel-supplied cable in your room, though, I would think it bodes ill.
>> Was there small note of congratulations inside the cover of the hidden jack?
> There should've been, shouldn't there? But no. I found the tasty Internet goodness within to be sufficient recompense. And at least it wasn't in an unlit cellar with no stairs in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on it saying "beware of the leopard".
>
> --John
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