Re: [93attendees] Hilton Guest Room Internet Update

[Peter Yee <[e-mail]>]

A Vodafone LTE SIM (~USD 32 for 10 GB) makes a pretty good alternative in
your situation, assuming you have an unlocked phone that can serve as a
hotspot.

			-Peter

On 7/23/15, 6:56 AM, "93attendees on behalf of Roni Even"
<[e-mail] on behalf of [e-mail]> wrote:

>The problem is that the wired connection does not work in my room and the
>response I got after talking with the hotel vendor was use the wireless
>one which of course does not work.
>This is the worst network experience I had at an ietf meeting hotel
>Roni
>
>Sent from my iPad
>
>> On 23 ביולי 2015, at 15:03, Jim Martin <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> 
>> Gentlepeople,
>>    First of all, I apologize for the delay in getting everyone an
>>update on this. We know the guestroom Internet here in the Hilton has
>>been problematic at best, and we have been working to try to improve it
>>for the last week. As you probably know, the IETF network provides the
>>IP layer and above for the guestrooms and public space, but the physical
>>layer, both for the wired and wireless uses the existing hotel
>>infrastructure. In the case here in Prague, we’ve been working closely
>>with the hotel’s vendor, Mikenopa to deliver this service. They’ve been
>>very willing and happy to work with us on this.
>> 
>>    For the wireless, we’ve lit up the “ietf-hotel” ssid on the existing
>>APs, both in the public space and guestrooms. These are the same APs
>>that provide the “hhonors” SSID. While the APs seem to have been
>>originally deployed reasonably, there has been hotel building changes
>>(mostly regarding new sprinkler systems) which has had them moved around
>>in the hallways to very suboptimal locations. This has led to many areas
>>having low to no signal. Additionally, their 2.4G channel assignment and
>>power levels weren’t optimal. Mikenopa has been trying to move APs and
>>reconfigure the channels.
>> 
>>    Additionally, due to our desire to use public IPv4 space, we’ve seen
>>very high broadcast loads. This is based in the fact that we’ve got a
>>large block that is sparsely used, and thus when we get scanned (as
>>happens constantly from the greater Internet) we get a large amount of
>>ARP traffic which can overload the wireless system. We’ve been working
>>on various techniques to reduce this load.
>> 
>>    On the wired front, we’ve had reasonably good luck (other than about
>>45 minutes of downtime last night with a self inflicted wound while
>>trying to reduce the ARP load). Please do use the wired connection in
>>each guestroom if at all possible. If you need a cable, it’s usually in
>>a cloth bag with a “@“ symbol on it in the desk. If you don’t have one,
>>please feel free to come to the NOC.
>> 
>>    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.
>> 
>>    - Jim
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