Re: Hotel networks (Was Re: Security for the IETF wireless network)

[Randall Gellens <[e-mail]>]

At 9:45 PM -0700 7/31/14, Randall Gellens wrote:

>  At 10:04 AM -0400 7/25/14, John C Klensin wrote:
>
>>   I think the world would be a better place (and not just for IETF
>>   meetings) if hotels disclosed what they actually were providing
>>   when they advertise "Internet service".  But, having seen about
>>   zero attention paid to our efforts in that direction almost ten
>>   years ago (trying to specify what the words should mean) go
>>   exactly nowhere and having a major ISP respond to complaints
>>   that a service advertised as "up to 5 Mbps" was delivering under
>>   800 kpbs with "speeds not guaranteed", I'm pretty pessimistic
>>   about near-term progress in that area.
>>   If the IETF could do something about it, I don't know what it
>>   would be.  I suppose we could publish post-meeting performance
>>   and capability information on the hotels we use (including
>>   before and during the switch to our external connections), but
>>   that might make some otherwise reasonable hotel choices decide
>>   they don't really want us.   On the other hand, some of us
>>   could, as individuals, approach some popular travel rating sites
>>   and encourage them to create a much more sophisticated category/
>>   report for Internet connectivity than "yes" or "no" and start
>>   reporting what we find when we travel.
>
>  I happened to see this today
>
>  "How to Check a Hotel's WiFi Speed Before Checking In"
> 
> http://www.frequentflier.com/blog/how-to-check-a-hotels-wifi-speed-before-checking-in/
>
>  Which reports that the site http://www.hotelwifitest.com makes 
> speed tests and speed test results available:
>
>  "The results of user's speed tests are also combined with other 
> users' input to create hotel WiFi profiles viewable on the Hotel 
> Wifi Test webpage."
>
>  Seems like a step in the right direction.  Of course, speed during 
> a few samples isn't the complete picture, but it's better than 
> nothing. Perhaps IETFers can help the site measure other factors?

By the way, the site reports that the Fairmont Royal York has an 
expected speed of 9.3 Mbps, a maximum of 18.5 Mbps, with a confidence 
of 17.5%.

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