----- Original Message ----- > From: "Leo Bicknell" <bickn...@ufp.org>
> I find more and more hotel networks are essentially unusable for > parts of the day, conference or no. Of course, bring in any geek > contingent with multiple devices and heavy usage patterns and the > problems get worse. > > What I find most interesting is more often than not the problem > appears to be an overloaded / undersized NAT/Captive portal/DNS > Resolver system. Behaviors like existing connections working fine, > but no new ones can be created (out of ports on the NAT?). While > bandwidth is occasionally an issue, I've found an ssh tunnel out > to some other end point solves the issues in 9 out of 10 cases. Neither part of that surprises me. :-} I'm *almost* convinced not to NAT IPv4, so far. > I wonder how many hotels upgrade their bandwidth but not the gateway, > get a report that their DS-3/OC-3/Metro-E is only 25% used, and think > all is well. Mean while half their clients can't connect to anything > due to the gateway device. That's an interesting question indeed. The optimal solution here, of course, would be for Worldcons -- which are planned 3-4 years in advance -- to get the right technical people in the loop with the property to see when in the next 2 years (after a bid is confirmed) they plan to upgrade the networking they have now... and make sure it will tolerate a "real" worst case. The business case for the property, of course, is that they're more salable to large technical conferences -- which makes them more money. Question is, is it enough. Or do I just overlay for the event. Cheers ,-- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274