You're on a continent with the second least amount of light pollution of all of the continents on earth (iirc) and are somehow surprised about bad net access? I would question the wisdom of planning a tech conference there, but not the facility itself. On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 4:16 AM, David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
On Jul 14, 2013, at 6:50 AM, Mark Seiden <mis@seiden.com> wrote:
and here i am in the icann-selected hotel for the icann conference, and they gave us a total of 500MB of metered usage.
Trust me, the 500MB limit (per day, and resettable if you go down to the front desk and request more) is the least of your worries:
% ping trantor.virtualized.org .... Request timeout for icmp_seq 179 Request timeout for icmp_seq 180 Request timeout for icmp_seq 181 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=104 ttl=40 time=78594.936 ms 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=64 ttl=40 time=119037.553 ms 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=80 ttl=40 time=103268.363 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=80 ttl=40 time=103690.981 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=64 ttl=40 time=120196.719 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=64 ttl=40 time=120333.246 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=85 ttl=40 time=99395.502 ms 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=105 ttl=40 time=79406.728 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 186 64 bytes from 199.48.134.42: icmp_seq=93 ttl=40 time=94822.040 ms Request timeout for icmp_seq 188 Request timeout for icmp_seq 189 ...
Regards, -drc