Re: meeting network

[Randy Carpenter <rcarpen () network1 net>]

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 <owen () 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 <rdobbins () 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