On 10/11/11 8:19 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
Should be pretty easy to convince the hotel that upselling NANOGers internet isn't going to result in revenue unless their network somehow miraculously handles the load. Instead, they can look forward to ~500 people wanting that charge reversed on checkout due to the hotel's inability to provide sufficient capacity.
As has been said in other parts of this thread NANOG typically negotiates to have in room internet removed from the attendees bill.
Also +1 regarding what Joel and John have said regarding the business complexities surrounding making the conference network available in-room or otherwise manipulating the existing network infrastructure of the hotel. Its worth a try but sometimes it is just not practical to do this.
