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WLAN at the hotel?
Cheetah:
There will be WLAN in the lobby and the bar. However, all we have at our disposal is consumer-grade equipment, and that tends to be a little bit overloaded if you have 700 people with a hundret laptops crowding one single area ... and some of them actively trying to disrupt your service, or causing large amounts of traffic.
(People, if you take your laptops to a con, don't try to seed the bittorrents of your latest blue ray rips. It's antisocial.)
So it will be quite tightly firewalled. Don't expect anything but standard SSH, FTP and HTTP/HTTPS to work. Please, bear with us :)
Jaypup:
Thank you Cheetah of your reply, that was what i needet to know.
Wawik:
--- Quote from: Suran on 07.08.2008, 08:16:40 ---What about using wlan instead of a cellular-phone to accept credit-cards on my table in the dealers den. ;)
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Oh yes, I would love to see your customers' credit card numbers flying around on the public, unencrypted WLAN. ;D
FWIW, there's also a T-Mobile hotspot at the hotel, but then again, owing to its distance from the CO, the whole place probably hasn't got much more than 2 Mbits at all, so *that* link will be easily saturated as well.
CodeCat:
What, no IRC? Can't we even tell our friends on there how great EF is and how much it sucks that they're not here? :P
Suran:
--- Quote from: doco on 07.08.2008, 12:16:09 ---Oh yes, I would love to see your customers' credit card numbers flying around on the public, unencrypted WLAN. ;D
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You know as well as I do that everything is encrypted and authenticated above the TCP-layer, so it does not matter if
the wireless lan is encrypted or not.
With the covered areas as given by Cheetah it will be UMTS in the dealers den again anyway.
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