[174886] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Marriott wifi blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Seagraves)
Fri Oct 3 23:57:39 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Daniel Seagraves <dseagrav@humancapitaldev.com>
In-Reply-To: <20141004034548.GG1424@bamboo.slabnet.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 22:57:29 -0500
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Oct 3, 2014, at 10:45 PM, Hugo Slabbert <hugo@slabnet.com> wrote:
> Jay,
>=20
> Killing hotspots of completely discrete networks "because $$$" is =
heinous. I had extended this to e.g.:
>=20
It=92s not just Marriott doing this; A friend of mine went to a =
convention near DC and found the venue was doing something like this. I =
don=92t know if the method was the same, but he reported that any time =
he connected to his phone he would be disconnected =93nearly =
immediately". He mentioned this to a con staffer and was told you had to =
rent internet access from the venue, it cost several hundred dollars per =
day. Same for electricity, about which he was told =93If you have to ask =
how much it costs, you cannot afford it.=94
