Sent from my iPad On Oct 11, 2011, at 10:48, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
On 11/10/2011 14:12, John Curran wrote:
is far better today then in the past, as there have been many conferences over the years where step 1 was pulling the coax or fiber through the hotel to establish their first-ever network infrastructure... :-)
There is nothing more dispiriting than "yeah sure, you can pull in that fibre cable, but only on condition that you remove it immediately after the [conference|meeting|whatever] is over. We already have the Internet".
Then they point at the 2Mb DSL wifi AP and expect you to be impressed at their technology.
Nick
Yes there is... There's the time when they say "No, you can't pull in that fiber. Just use the internet and set up a VPN" then point to the 1Mbps DSL wifi AP... Owen