In a message written on Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:53:01AM -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote:
Yes, and I'm told by my best friend who did attend (I didn't make it this year) that the hotel wired/wifi was essentially unusable, every time he tried. Hence my interest in the issue.
I find more and more hotel networks are essentially unusable for parts of the day, conference or no. Of course, bring in any geek contingent with multiple devices and heavy usage patterns and the problems get worse. What I find most interesting is more often than not the problem appears to be an overloaded / undersized NAT/Captive portal/DNS Resolver system. Behaviors like existing connections working fine, but no new ones can be created (out of ports on the NAT?). While bandwidth is occasionally an issue, I've found an ssh tunnel out to some other end point solves the issues in 9 out of 10 cases. I wonder how many hotels upgrade their bandwidth but not the gateway, get a report that their DS-3/OC-3/Metro-E is only 25% used, and think all is well. Mean while half their clients can't connect to anything due to the gateway device. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/