10 Mbit/s problem in your network

Constantine A. Murenin mureninc at gmail.com
Sun Feb 10 07:38:32 UTC 2013


On 9 February 2013 22:59, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike at swm.pp.se> wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2013, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
>
>> When you are staying at a 3* hotel, should you have no expectations that
>> you'll be getting at least a 3Mbps pipe and at least an under 100ms average
>> latency, and won't be getting a balancer that would be breaking up your ssh
>> sessions?
>
>
> Not really. Best way to improve this would probably be to get the hotel
> booking sites to include a separate rating for the internet connectivity.
>
> Up until then, getting Internet connectivity into a hotel is either just
> cost (in case they offer it for free) or probably a badly performing profit
> center (because as soon as they try to charge their outrageous prices I
> imagine take up is abysmal).
>
> If a good performing hotel actually got better rating out of having bad
> connectivity, and a badly performing hotel got worse rating at rating sites,
> then I'd imagine that more emphasis would be put on this.
>
> *But* it also requires a standard test that people can run to understand if
> things are bad or good. For instance, my ISP guarantees to provide 50-100
> megabit/s down and 7-10 up on my 100/10 home connection to a speed test site
> located on neutral ground here in Sweden.
>
> So if the hotels could market themselves with some kind of lowest speed
> guarantee according to some standard, I believe things would improve.
> Especially if hotels.com (and others) had a special search item for this,
> where you could do a search and it would only show results for hotels that
> guaranteed a certain speed.

The problem here is that somehow someone at Hyatt decided that a
regular low-end asymmetrical ~10Mbps/~1Mbps fibre-optic connection
from SureWest could be shared (together with a lousy 1.5Mbps T1 from
T) between 151 rooms, when almost every single person staying in the
hotel has a connection at least twice as big back home, for their own
unshared use!  Isn't the logical reasoning simply unbelievable?

I've tried calling their corporate office, but they, apparently, don't
have any kind of a corporate standard for internet connectivity,
saying that it's up to the individual hotels and the local conditions.

How anyone could math out that an average single-digit Mbps
asymmetrical connection can be shared with 151 rooms without any kind
of service degradation or outright periodic halts is rather beyond me.

Out of curiosity, I've tried going onto SureWestBusiness.com web-site
to see what kind of offers they provide for businesses, only to find
out that business FTTH connections max out at 10Mbps down and 1Mbps
up!  Yeap, in a major metro area, that's definitely an ILEC for you!

Anyone from SureWest to comment how come residential fibre-optic
connections can have 50Mbps/50Mbps, but businesses that share their
connection with several hundred residents are limited to 10Mbps down
and 1Mbps up max?  Why do you even need to have fibre-optics for that
kind of stone-age speeds?  And I thought AT&T FTTU was slow!

C.




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