10 Mbit/s problem in your network

Sun Feb 17 16:49:03 UTC 2013

On 2/17/13 8:33 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- 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}}
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