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On Oct 11, 2011, at 10:48, Nick Hilliard <n...@foobar.org> wrote: > On 11/10/2011 14:12, John Curran wrote: >> is far better today then in the past, as there have been many conferences >> over the years where step 1 was pulling the coax or fiber through the >> hotel to establish their first-ever network infrastructure... :-) > > There is nothing more dispiriting than "yeah sure, you can pull in that > fibre cable, but only on condition that you remove it immediately after the > [conference|meeting|whatever] is over. We already have the Internet". > > Then they point at the 2Mb DSL wifi AP and expect you to be impressed at > their technology. > > Nick > Yes there is... There's the time when they say "No, you can't pull in that fiber. Just use the internet and set up a VPN" then point to the 1Mbps DSL wifi AP... Owen
