Once upon a time, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> said:
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".
I would say the situation depends on the hotel and which person you talk to. I volunteer for one of the largest science fiction conventions, and we take over 5 convention hotels for the con. I set up networking for our staff department's operations last year in one hotel, and initially we couldn't get anywhere because it was iBAHN and demanding an auth code on a captive web portal. When we got somebody from the hotel to look, he went into a closet around the corner and moved the wire, and we were then on the hotel's "direct" network. He then noticed I was running Linux, and we chatted about different distributions, and while I was setting up my (probably not allowed) wireless router, he showed back up with a box of cat5 and some ends (he was going to run some additional wires around the room for us, but saw I was running an AP and said "you're good, aren't you" and went on). We also have fiber pulled between the 5 hotels for our video feed, and that stays in place from year to year. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.