10 Mbit/s problem in your network

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Sun Feb 17 16:33:44 UTC 2013


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Howard" <scott at 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}}

> 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
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