Another Network Update

[kevin_standlee]

The center of this hotel is a five-story atrium, which is the convention's social space. I took my computer there and it connected by wireless, initially strongly, but now weakly. If it follows the form it has been, the connection my drop complete eventually.

Regarding the wired connection, I finally got through to tech support, which informed me that their network has a known incompatibility with the Broadcom ethernet cards such as are on my Dell Inspiron, and that there isn't a whole lot they can do about it.

Comments

[corwynofamber.livejournal.com]

when I was at PDC in October, the wired connection at the sheraton was almost impossible to connect to and the wireless was sloooowwww.
several people who got through to tech support were told that the company had instituted abuse filters against the hotel, due to the huge amount of traffic.

who would have thought a hotel full of comptuer geeks would have lots of net traffic?

[kallisti.livejournal.com]

Well, the broadcom ethernet chipset is one of the most popular Gigabit ethernet chipsets in the world...Dell, and HP both use them in their laptops...

That hotel has a *big* problem....

Or they are lying to you...

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

The latter seems possible, although he did name Broadcom before asking me what my card type was.

[jcbemis.livejournal.com]

I connected just fine in my room with the wire to my replacement EeePC.

[paradoox.livejournal.com]

I've been connected for 45 minutes in my room on wireless without problem. I'm only getting 5.5 to 16mbps on a wireless-G card, but it is good enough for what I am doing.