nanog mailing list archives
Re: Marriott wifi blocking
From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa () latt net>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 00:25:40 -0400
On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 10:57:29PM -0500, Daniel Seagraves wrote:
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
I've seen this in a few places, but if anyone encounters similar behavior, I suggest the following: - Document the incident. - Identify the make and model of the access point, or controller, and be sure to pass along this information to the FCC's OET: http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/ Vendors really need to start losing their US device certification for devices that include advertised features that violate US law. It would put a stop to this sort of thing pretty quickly. --msa
Current thread:
- Re: Marriott wifi blocking, (continued)
- Re: Marriott wifi blocking Jay Hennigan (Oct 04)
- Re: Marriott wifi blocking Jay Hennigan (Oct 03)
- Re: Marriott wifi blocking Owen DeLong (Oct 03)
- Re: Marriott wifi blocking David Cantrell (Oct 06)
- Re: Marriott wifi blocking Michael Van Norman (Oct 03)
- Re: Marriott wifi blocking Hugo Slabbert (Oct 03)
- Re: Marriott wifi blocking Jay Ashworth (Oct 03)
- Re: Marriott wifi blocking Hugo Slabbert (Oct 03)
- Re: Marriott wifi blocking Jay Ashworth (Oct 03)
- Re: Marriott wifi blocking Daniel Seagraves (Oct 03)
- Re: Marriott wifi blocking Majdi S. Abbas (Oct 03)
- Re: Marriott wifi blocking Jay Ashworth (Oct 04)
- Re: Marriott wifi blocking Michael Thomas (Oct 04)
- Re: Marriott wifi blocking SML (Oct 04)
- Re: Marriott wifi blocking Jimmy Hess (Oct 04)
- Re: Marriott wifi blocking Florian Weimer (Oct 05)
- Re: Marriott wifi blocking Jay Ashworth (Oct 05)
- Re: Marriott wifi blocking Owen DeLong (Oct 06)
- Re: Marriott wifi blocking Jay Hennigan (Oct 03)
- Re: Marriott wifi blocking Alexander Harrowell (Oct 06)
- Re: Marriott wifi blocking Jay Hennigan (Oct 03)