Re: [89attendees] Ethernet jack in Hilton Rooms

[Randall Gellens <[e-mail]>]

At 9:29 PM +0000 3/3/14, John G. Scudder wrote:

>  On Mar 3, 2014, at 8:26 PM, Matt Lepinski 
> <<mailto:[e-mail]>[e-mail]> 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?

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