Re: Meetings in other regions

[Dave Cridland <dave at cridland.net>]

On Wed Jul 19 14:53:59 2006, Dave Crocker wrote:
> 1. Since we know that The London metropolitan area has excellent 
> Internet
> connectivity and bandwidth, the problems you experienced must have 
> been due to
> the particular meeting site and not the region.
Indeed. The meeting site had confused "Full Internet Access" with 
"Braindead HTTP proxy web access". I can't remember if the proxy 
supported CONNECT or not. The bandwidth itself was fine and fast, I 
believe. I certainly couldn't recommend the venue for the IETF.

Of course, being good little Lemonade folk, many of us continued on 
GPRS et al quite happily, which was really quite fitting. I seem to 
remember that at one point, Randall Gellens was actually providing 
the entire room with unblemished, albeit slow, internet access over 
his mobile. In some respects, it focused discussions beneficially, by 
forcing us into using the kinds of connectivity and network we were 
trying to address.

It was one of the first times I'd intensively used my own MUA over 
that kind of bandwidth for anything more than quick mailchecks and 
testing, so I recall it with almost nostalgic pleasure.

Dave.
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