When staying at Homestead a few years back, they would close my Internet connection, because I was downloading movies via peer to peer. It took me a while and escalating to a relatively competent network engineer to figure it out: "Mate, I don't have any p2p software installed, may be my computer is hacked, tell me what traffic you see that triggers your system, so I can investigate". I came down that they did not like my Skype trying to re-establish connections with contacts in Asia/Pacific (where I lived then), instead of the USA.
I also organized conferences, and putting more than 20 people (with various OS/hacked machines) on the same access point, is not standard operations as in a company, you need some experience with that, something that some ISPs (who were sponsoring the Internet) failed to understand. On 2/9/13 7:55 PM, "Constantine A. Murenin" <[email protected]> wrote: >Dear NANOG@, > >In light of the recent discussion titled, "The 100 Gbit/s problem in >your network", I'd like to point out that smaller operators and >end-sites are currently very busy having and ignoring the 10 Mbit/s >problem in their networks. > >Hotels in major metro areas, for example. Some have great >connectivity (e.g. through high-capacity microwave links), and always >have a latency of between 5ms and 15ms to the nearest internet >exchange, and YouTube and Netflix just work, always, and nearly >flawlessly, and in full HD. > >Others think that load-balancing 150+ rooms with Fast Ethernet and >WiFi in every room, plus a couple of conference/meeting rooms (e.g. >potentially more than a single /24 worth of all sorts of devices) on a >couple of independent T1 and ADSL links is an acceptable practice. >Yes, a T1 and an ADSL, with some kind of Layer 3 / 4 balancing! This >is at a time when it would not be uncommon to travel with an Apple TV >or a Roku. And then not only even YouTube and cbs.com don't work, but >an average latency of above 500ms is not unusual in the evenings, and >ssh is practically unusable. (Or sometimes they do the balancing >wrong, and the ssh connections simply break every minute due to the >broken balancer.) > >And this happens even with boutique hotels like the Joie de Vivre >brand in the Silicon Valley (Wild Palms on El Camino Real in Sunnyvale >has an absolutely horrible bandwidth even when it's half empty), or >with brand-new properties like Hyatt Place in the hometown of a rather >famous ILEC that has the whole town glassed up with fiber-optics (the >place is less than 2 years old, and Google Maps still shows it as >being constructed, yet independent T1 and ADSL links from two distinct >ILECs is the only connectivity they have!). > >How should end-users deal with such broadband incompetence; why do >local carriers allow businesses to abuse their connections and their >own customers in such ways; why do the sub-contracted internet support >companies design and support such broken-by-design setups? > >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? > >Best regards, >Constantine. >
