On 2/17/13 8:33 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
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From: "Scott Howard" <scott@doc.net.au>
A VPN or SSH session (which is what most hotel guests traveling for work will do) won't cache at all well, so this is a very bad idea. Might improve some things, but not the really important ones. The chances of the average hotel wifi user even knowing what SSH means is close to zero. {{citation-needed}} The crapy facebook games that everyone plays are both latency senstive and unhappy when their connections are reset. zynga poker peaked at something like 38 million players (per wikipedia)
As an aside, I was sitting in JFK airport (terminal 4) a few days ago and having a shocking time getting a good internet connection - even from my own Mifi. I fired up inSSIDer, and within a few seconds it had detected 122 AP's... Yup; B/G/N congestion is a real problem. Nice that the latest generation of both mifi's and cellphones all seem to do A as well, in addition to current-gen business laptops (my x61 is almost 5 years old, and speaks A).
Cheers, -- jra