[145539] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: new guest room SSID for NANOG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Ryanczak)
Tue Oct 11 10:02:23 2011
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:01:07 -0400
From: Matt Ryanczak <ryanczak@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <71B4425B-ABE7-4014-8625-04960031DC21@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 10/11/11 8:19 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> Should be pretty easy to convince the hotel that upselling NANOGers
> internet isn't going to result in revenue unless their network somehow
> miraculously handles the load.
>
> Instead, they can look forward to ~500 people wanting that charge
> reversed on checkout due to the hotel's inability to provide sufficient
> capacity.
As has been said in other parts of this thread NANOG typically
negotiates to have in room internet removed from the attendees bill.
Also +1 regarding what Joel and John have said regarding the business
complexities surrounding making the conference network available in-room
or otherwise manipulating the existing network infrastructure of the
hotel. Its worth a try but sometimes it is just not practical to do this.
