[160877] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10 Mbit/s problem in your network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sun Feb 17 15:11:47 2013
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <28915468.6329.1361118824719.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:07:13 -0800
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 17, 2013, at 08:33 , Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Scott Howard" <scott@doc.net.au>
>=20
>>> 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.
>>=20
>> The chances of the average hotel wifi user even knowing what SSH =
means
>> is close to zero.=20
>=20
> {{citation-needed}}
>=20
>> 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...
>=20
> 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=20=
> current-gen business laptops (my x61 is almost 5 years old, and speaks =
A).
>=20
I think by A you actually mean 5Ghz N. A doesn't do much better than G, =
though
you still have the advantage of wider channels and less frequency =
congestion
with other uses.
Owen
