[174888] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Marriott wifi blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Majdi S. Abbas)
Sat Oct 4 00:34:11 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 00:25:40 -0400
From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@latt.net>
To: Daniel Seagraves <dseagrav@humancapitaldev.com>
In-Reply-To: <1AFC77DF-48D8-4AB6-A31D-97072DE2765F@humancapitaldev.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 10:57:29PM -0500, Daniel Seagraves wrote:
> It?s 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?t know if
> the method was the same, but he reported that any time he connected to his
> phone he would be disconnected ?nearly 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
I've seen this in a few places, but if anyone encounters similar
behavior, I suggest the following:
- Document the incident.
- Identify the make and model of the access point, or
controller, and be sure to pass along this information to
the FCC's OET: http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/
Vendors really need to start losing their US device certification
for devices that include advertised features that violate US law. It
would put a stop to this sort of thing pretty quickly.
--msa
