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IETF Attendees Reengineer Their Hotel's Wi-Fi Net

Posted by timothy on from the better-than-legionnaires-disease dept.

alphadogg writes "What happens when a bunch of IETF super nerds show up in Paris for a major conference and discover their hotel's Wi-Fi network has imploded? They give it an Extreme Wi-Fi Makeover. Members of the Internet Engineering Task Force, who gathered for the outfit's 83rd meeting this week in France, discovered as they arrived at the Hotel Concorde Lafayette that the Wi-Fi was flakey and became flakier still as scores more attendees arrived and tried to connect, and the wired net was having issues of its own. Working behind the scenes, a team of IETF attendees negotiated with the hotel and were granted access to the wireless network, and began rigging up all sorts of fixes, which even included taping a Nexus S phone to a ceiling and turning off the radios on numerous access points to reduce noise."

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  1. the phone by C0R1D4N · · Score: 3, Funny

    Someone please explain the usefulness of taping a phone to the ceiling to me.

    1. Re:the phone by geekmux · · Score: 5, Funny

      Someone please explain the usefulness of taping a phone to the ceiling to me.

      It's part of the IPv7 protocol. Don't worry, you'll see them release a paper next week on it...and I'm sure industry will get right on implementing that...sometime in 2037.

      In other news, it was reported that part of the re-engineering of this Wi-Fi network was implementing IPv6...unfortunately, they could find no one outside of the IETF super nerds who knew what the hell it was for...

    2. Re:the phone by buchner.johannes · · Score: 3, Funny

      Someone please explain the usefulness of taping a phone to the ceiling to me.

      It's part of the IPv7 protocol. Don't worry, you'll see them release a paper next week on it...and I'm sure industry will get right on implementing that...sometime in 2037.

      Obviously in 2037 we have to tape our phones to the ceiling when we wear our pockets inside-out.

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    3. Re:the phone by idontgno · · Score: 3, Funny

      This will coincide nicely with the revival of the fashion of wearing an onion on your belt.

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  2. Re: Nexus S phone??? by niftydude · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know, you could have politely pointed out my error like yincrash did above, but chose not to. Now I'm going to have to get medieval on your ass. When dealing with the pain, please remember you brought this on yourself.

    Whilst thine contention that I readeth not the article is in good sooth, thine attitude lacketh charm and grace.
    Prithee consider the comeliness of thine words, lest good folk consider thee knavish.
    Thou art an embossed carbuncle.

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  3. Re:Wheres the Beef?? by Ihmhi · · Score: 4, Funny

    These IETF dudes sound like the A-Team of IT. They just roll into town, unfuck the network, and are gone just as mysteriously.

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