[145542] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: meeting network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Oct 11 11:06:48 2011
In-Reply-To: <4E945737.6080108@foobar.org>
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:03:56 -0400
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Oct 11, 2011, at 10:48, 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=20
>> hotel to establish their first-ever network infrastructure... :-)
>=20
> 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 th=
e
> [conference|meeting|whatever] is over. We already have the Internet".
>=20
> Then they point at the 2Mb DSL wifi AP and expect you to be impressed at
> their technology.
>=20
> Nick
>=20
Yes there is... There's the time when they say "No, you can't pull in that f=
iber. Just use the internet and set up a VPN" then point to the 1Mbps DSL wi=
fi AP...
Owen
