In message <Pine.WNT.4.44.0207151423220.2740-100000(a)den2>, Juha Saarinen writes:
>On 15 Jul 2002, Dean Pemberton wrote:
>> The story I heard was thata Vixie wanted wireless to his room.
>
>I gather it was his modem that didn't like the hotel switchboard (or the
>other way round, really).
I'm not sure which hotel he was staying in when having trouble (for
complicated reasons conference attendees ended up in two different
hotels) -- I was able to dial out of the Hotel Grand Chancellor, but
only with a very long timeout (over 60 seconds) to allow the modem
negotiation to work. Got about 28K8 connections IIRC. The Centra hotel
appeared to have analogue POTS lines into the rooms, but I didn't try
dialing out there.
The wireless OTOH was very handy -- thanks to those who arranged it.
(Even if the ADSL did occassionally have problems it all mostly worked,
and was very handy.) The wireless definitely worked as far as the
chairs outside the bar, as I saw someone using it there; inside the bar
I don't know, but it was close enough it probably should have worked.
>But, seeing that most hotels (outside NZ at least) offer a bedside
>Ethernet port, something should've been arranged IMO.
You must have a very different definition of "most" to the one I use.
I've never actually seen this, even in hotels that advertise it.
(Comment from reception at one hotel when I'd booked into a room
advertising this "oh, we don't do that". No, I wasn't pleased.)
Ewen
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