[164511] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: One of our own in the Guardian.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Sun Jul 14 07:14:47 2013
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAH_OBicq=kkuCFUOK7yfvB20fWwOOcheAYeWOooJpnW3-szx0w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 12:26:20 +0200
To: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 14, 2013, at 11:12 AM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:
> You're on a continent with the second least amount of light pollution
> of all of the continents on earth (iirc) and are somehow surprised
> about bad net access?
Africa is not homogeneous.
> I would question the wisdom of planning a tech
> conference there, but not the facility itself.
Actually, I expect the bandwidth/latency at the conference venue itself =
is fine (has been so far, but the conference hasn't really started yet), =
even given the high-bandwidth requirements (streaming audio and video in =
parallel sessions and around 2000 attendees and a zillion wifi devices). =
ICANN has been doing this for a while in a bunch of different places =
(some significantly more challenging than Durban, ZA).
I suspect the problem is the (offsite) hotel that Mark and I are at was =
not really prepared for a full house of folks interested in viewing =
streams, downloading documents, etc. (despite attempts to inform the =
hotel of the impending tsunami). I imagine folks involved in setting up =
NANOG-related networks might be familiar with this sort of situation...
Regards,
-drc
