Re: 10 Mbit/s problem in your network

[joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 2/17/13 8:33 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Scott Howard" <scott () doc net au>
> > > A VPN or SSH session (which is what most hotel guests traveling for
> > > work will do) won't cache at all well, so this is a very bad idea.
> > > Might improve some things, but not the really important ones.
> > The chances of the average hotel wifi user even knowing what SSH means
> > is close to zero.
> {{citation-needed}}
The crapy facebook games that everyone plays are both latency senstive 
and unhappy when their connections are reset. zynga poker peaked at 
something like 38 million players (per wikipedia)
> > As an aside, I was sitting in JFK airport (terminal 4) a few days ago and
> > having a shocking time getting a good internet connection - even from my
> > own Mifi. I fired up inSSIDer, and within a few seconds it had detected
> > 122 AP's...
> Yup; B/G/N congestion is a real problem.  Nice that the latest generation
> of both mifi's and cellphones all seem to do A as well, in addition to
> current-gen business laptops (my x61 is almost 5 years old, and speaks A).
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra