Problem for me at least has not been the MAC layer (either hotel room or meeting room), it was that the DHCP server was not responding. Ironically, I could still see everyone's Bonjour and SMB service advertisements. --Richard
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Nick Hilliard <n...@foobar.org> wrote: > On 10/10/2011 13:28, Randy Bush wrote: >> perhaps as an educational exercise in network troubleshooting whoever is >> operating the meeting network could explain what the frack is wrong with >> the meeting network, how it is being debugged, and what they have >> learned about the cause of the suckage. > > if it's wifi that's causing the trouble, the usual causes are: > > - insufficient density of APs for the number of clients > - APs configured with TX too high (should be set as low as possible) > - APs configured to accept dot11b <= 9 megs > - APs configured to use auto channel selection > - stupid broken clients screaming at high volume across the room to APs > which are impossibly far away > > There is a more fundamental problem, though: wifi was not designed with > crazyass density in mind. > > Bring back UTP? > > Nick > >