[145545] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: meeting network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Tue Oct 11 14:01:09 2011
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:59:24 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Mail-Followup-To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4E945737.6080108@foobar.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Once upon a time, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> said:
> 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".
I would say the situation depends on the hotel and which person you talk
to. I volunteer for one of the largest science fiction conventions, and
we take over 5 convention hotels for the con. I set up networking for
our staff department's operations last year in one hotel, and initially
we couldn't get anywhere because it was iBAHN and demanding an auth code
on a captive web portal. When we got somebody from the hotel to look,
he went into a closet around the corner and moved the wire, and we were
then on the hotel's "direct" network.
He then noticed I was running Linux, and we chatted about different
distributions, and while I was setting up my (probably not allowed)
wireless router, he showed back up with a box of cat5 and some ends (he
was going to run some additional wires around the room for us, but saw I
was running an AP and said "you're good, aren't you" and went on).
We also have fiber pulled between the 5 hotels for our video feed, and
that stays in place from year to year.
--
Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
