Re: [93attendees] Hilton Guest Room Internet Update

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On 7/23/15 3:32 PM, John G. Scudder wrote:
> Actual coordination, if practically achievable, seems like a great
> idea, but I'm skeptical. Short of that, if your AP allows you to
> set Tx power level, it would seem friendly to set it as low as
> possible to avoid degrading the noise floor any more than
> absolutely necessary.

If your personal ap does 5Ghz (airport express for example) that would
make it less of an attractive nuisance.

In fact mimicking the hotel APs probably increases the complexity of
reasoning about the hotel network so that's maybe not the best approach.

> --John
> 
>> On Jul 23, 2015, at 3:14 PM, Olaf Kolkman <kolkman@isoc.org 
>> <mailto:kolkman@isoc.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> |Overall, we’ve seen the ietf-hotel work reasonably well in the 
>> restaurant, lobby and hallways, but poorly (but slowly
>> improving) in the guestrooms. We continue to work on this, but
>> using the wired connection in your room is probably your best
>> bet. |
>> 
>> Some of us bring our own APs to connect to the wire for this sort
>> of situation. (I bought a box which turned out to be a wireless
>> extender /sigh/, for which OpenWRT came in handy).
>> 
>> Are there any recommendations that you could share with respect
>> to naming of those networks (so that neighboring rooms can share
>> that AP) and e.g. channel choice? I mean would naming such
>> network IETF-hotel and keeping it open interfere with anything
>> you try to do?
>> 
>> I would assume: * Use IETF-hotel as that would give the neighbors
>> a seamless experience, * Use a scanning app to select a channel
>> with relatively low other signal.
>> 
>> More?
>> 
>> —Olaf
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