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Re: Marriott wifi blocking


From: Daniel Seagraves <dseagrav () humancapitaldev com>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 22:57:29 -0500


On Oct 3, 2014, at 10:45 PM, Hugo Slabbert <hugo () slabnet com> wrote:

Jay,

Killing hotspots of completely discrete networks "because $$$" is heinous.  I had extended this to e.g.:


It’s not just Marriott doing this; A friend of mine went to a convention near DC and found the venue was doing 
something like this. I don’t know if the method was the same, but he reported that any time he connected to his phone 
he would be disconnected “nearly immediately". He mentioned this to a con staffer and was told you had to rent internet 
access from the venue, it cost several hundred dollars per day. Same for electricity, about which he was told “If you 
have to ask how much it costs, you cannot afford it.”



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