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Re: meeting network

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorn Hetzel)
Tue Oct 11 10:54:55 2011

In-Reply-To: <4E945737.6080108@foobar.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:54:47 -0400
From: Dorn Hetzel <dorn@hetzel.org>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Maybe instead of upgrading the network of cities, we could convince Google
to practice by upgrading the networks of a variety of hotels
in locations that NANOG might find appealing :)

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:

> 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 internet
> Then they point at the 2Mb DSL wifi AP and expect you to be impressed at
> their technology.
>
> Nick
>
>
>

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