[160875] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10 Mbit/s problem in your network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sun Feb 17 11:34:01 2013
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:33:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Howard" <scott@doc.net.au>
> > A VPN or SSH session (which is what most hotel guests traveling for
> > work will do) won't cache at all well, so this is a very bad idea.
> > Might improve some things, but not the really important ones.
>
> The chances of the average hotel wifi user even knowing what SSH means
> is close to zero.
{{citation-needed}}
> As an aside, I was sitting in JFK airport (terminal 4) a few days ago and
> having a shocking time getting a good internet connection - even from my
> own Mifi. I fired up inSSIDer, and within a few seconds it had detected
> 122 AP's...
Yup; B/G/N congestion is a real problem. Nice that the latest generation
of both mifi's and cellphones all seem to do A as well, in addition to
current-gen business laptops (my x61 is almost 5 years old, and speaks A).
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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