On the hotel network, I have also seen some issues beyond getting an address. I can usually trace just fine, but applications, specifically web is extremely slow, or non responsive. The hotel appears to be shoving all traffic through a squid proxy, which does not appear to be big enough to handle the traffic. I have gotten various error messages from squid.
I would think that the contract with the hotel for the conference would include the specific requirements for the network. Is that not the case? -Randy On Oct 10, 2011, at 10:01, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote: > > On Oct 10, 2011, at 6:50 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobb...@arbor.net> wrote: >>> On Oct 10, 2011, at 7:46 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: >>> >>>> if it's wifi that's causing the trouble, the usual causes are: >> >> is the complaint the hotel ROOM wireless? or the meeting-room? I >> noticed the nanog-a-secure bounce me 2x, so I moved back to >> ipsec-tunnel on nanog-a.. in the past nanog (plain) has been more >> 'stable' for me in general (and all you mac users can happily fight >> over -a!) >> >> As to the hotel room wifi... apparently when you have 490 rooms in the >> hotel (full) and only provision your internal NAT space as a /23 ... >> things work 'fine' most days. When a networking conference comes to >> visit with 3+ devices requiring IP in each room... the whole hotel >> network stops :( Last night the display systems in the lobby and the >> hotel registration machines were all broken :( The hotel's network >> people (in NYC) are supposedly 'on a fix', who knows... (is expanding >> the nat subnet THAT hard?) >> >> -chris > > It would be wise for NANOG to approach future venues and specifically discuss > these things with the hotel IT departments in question ahead of time so that > they have some remote chance of being prepared. > > Owen > > >
