[145540] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: meeting network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Tue Oct 11 10:48:41 2011
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From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
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On 11/10/2011 14:12, John Curran wrote:
> is far better today then in the past, as there have been many conferences
> over the years where step 1 was pulling the coax or fiber through the
> hotel to establish their first-ever network infrastructure... :-)
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".
Then they point at the 2Mb DSL wifi AP and expect you to be impressed at
their technology.
Nick
