Subject: Re: [78attendees] Swisscom in the NH hotel - epic fail

From: "hermin anggawijaya" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:47:55 +1200

I'm also in Van der Valk and staying in a room near the main lifts and I've been happy
with KPN wifi (a week package for EU$24.95).

Hope it helps.

>>> Yoav Nir <[email-masked]> 07/27/10 10:21 PM >>>
On Jul 27, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Warren Kumari wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Chris Morrow <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> Florian Buehlmann and Stefan Burschka,
>> I don't suppose either of you could point out to the portion of
>> Swisscom that actually provisions hotel internet access that:
>> 
>> 1) given 2 yrs notice they could plan for an event with 500+ internet users
>> 2) run a captive portal that doesn't crash when accessed
>> 3) capacity plan hotel access
>> 4) ask the neighbors (SIDN/university or the ietf even, since they
>> were going to be onsite) for transit services during a large event
>> such as this so hauling more capacity out to this hotel isn't as
>> expensive
>> 
>> The hotel wireless is an utter failure, there really is no excuse for
>> it to be this poor, Swisscom looks absolutely horrendous in this
>> event, I would hope that in the next set of venues a lesson learned
>> here does not have to be repeated. For the short term, perhaps Florian
>> and/or Stefan can contact their corporation and request that the hotel
>> wifi be fed from the IETF network links? This should be able to be
>> accomplished in very short order...
>> 
>> Being unable to keep up with day-job tasks when the conference time is
>> over makes future attendance risky/less-likely.
>> 
>> Frustrated ietf attendee.
> 

I'm at the Van der Valk. I have a room at the end of the corridor. When I position my laptop just so, I manage to pick up the KPN SSID, but never any actual packets. I consider asking for a change of rooms, but (1) if the signal doesn't reach the end of the corridor, it won't be that strong a few rooms down the hall, and (2) Shoddy deployment of wifi base stations does not bode well for the rest of the network, and (3) The hotel has a page with instructions on how to connect to the KPN network, that goes
ISDN???  with a few dozen IETFers in the hotel?

I'm guessing that this is wrong, and the connection has since been updated to 750K ADSL or something, but I decided I don't need the aggravation, and I'm going without. Hope the Internet withdrawal symptoms don't kill me.

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