10 Mbit/s problem in your network

Sun Feb 17 20:07:13 UTC 2013

On Feb 17, 2013, at 08:33 , Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> 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}}
> 
>> 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).
> 

I think by A you actually mean 5Ghz N. A doesn't do much better than G, though
you still have the advantage of wider channels and less frequency congestion
with other uses.

Owen