[HECnet] Out of action more or less until the 25th...

[Jason Stevens]

One thing I noticed on my 'glorious' time warner connection (that's all they have here) is that with all my equipment set to auto detect I was getting less then 1MB on my 'high speed' connection.

But forcing my router to 100MB half duplex gets me 45MB in bursts.....

Sometimes it's worth exploring options on those wan links, but you'd need to break into the hotel system to do so....

Not that I'd ever do something like that....

What is more annoying is that all the TCP/UDP port filtering is done at the ISP level.. I have to buy a tunnel out from  Sweden  to get full IP access... now how's that for a joke?


On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
Gregg,

That might be true but I'm miles out of DC in VA.

If internet access (and their rooms are cool too) is important to you* and for some god-forsaken reason you need to be stuck in this suburban hellhole for business, stay at Sierra:

Hotel Sierra in Sterling, Virginia
45520 Dulles Plaza
Sterling, VA   20166

1703/435-9002 or 1-800-474-3772, http://www.hotel-sierra.com/

Sampsa

* I was seriously getting 14-20 mbps down. It's a cool hotel anyway, only problem is the bar only had beer and wine. License issue. Oh and it's in the middle of suburban industrial park hell - everything is fake and 20 miles apart from each other, and I have no car.




On 19 Sep 2010, at 15:40, Gregg Levine wrote:

>
> Incidentally all hotels in the DC area are stuck with that because the
> Feds insist on abusing the networks where they are centrally located.
> It gets better closer to NYC, by the time you're staying in a NJ hotel
> you're getting closer to your home's settings.
> -----
> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."