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Re: I told the flight attendant "the WiFi isn't working"

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Post by belter »

workfromspace wrote: post #112

15+ years ago, I had the same problem at a Starbucks. I asked the cashiers to reboot the modem, but they didn't understand why. Then I showed my new Microsoft certification card which has MCSE and few others and told them that "trust me, I know what I'm doing". They called their manager, who was also suprised but decided to go along with it and restarted the modem, solving the problem. I remember all the employees we…

That happened to me also. The manager told me all employees had a MCSE and CCIE and they were not currently hiring, thank you...

Re: I told the flight attendant "the WiFi isn't working"

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Post by amluto »

spr-alex wrote: post #96
amluto wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does this usefully support multiple APs with the same ESSID?

Yes, although it is part of our upsell and not in the core FOSS project. We need to update our documentation to be more clear as we have been getting this question more often.

I poked around the site, and it was entirely unclear to me that one could buy this feature or how it works.

Can it make it painless to manage multiple APs and to get fast roaming, etc working? UniFi pulls this off nicely — there’s nothing particularly fancy under the hood AFAICT, but it all just works. A more intelligent solution where clients got assigned to appropriate VLANs would IMO be extra nice.

(The enterprise vendors seem to have decent ACL and maybe even anti-spoofing measures for their wired networks, and they have some security features for wireless, but I haven’t seen anyone with a nice solution that makes wired and wireless security cooperate. I haven’t looked that hard.)

Re: I told the flight attendant "the WiFi isn't working"

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Post by gumby »

nulbyte wrote: post #59
midasuni wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Almost certainly no. Unlike the assertion made, she didn’t need to escalate it.

Why didn't she need to escalate it? I can imagine the hospitality industry would not want the WiFi sporadically going down for their guests; that's not a very hospitable experience.

WiFi is not considered that important to a hotel or conference center, especially when most people have access to the phone network.

There’s a reason why many conferences deploy their own wifi infrastructure

Re: I told the flight attendant "the WiFi isn't working"

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Post by ratg13 »

bilsbie wrote: post #21

I upvoted this in the futile hope that the right person sees it.

The problem is that the person reporting this needs to identity the provider or nothing will get done.

The plane usually tells you if the WiFi is provided by viasat, anuvu, or any of the other big players.

These companies program this stuff before it goes into the aircraft and the airline IT has no access to this stuff.

Without the missing info, it’s almost impossible to trace this.

Re: I told the flight attendant "the WiFi isn't working"

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Post by undersuit »

gumby wrote: post #123
nulbyte wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why didn't she need to escalate it? I can imagine the hospitality industry would not want the WiFi sporadically going down for their guests; that's not a very hospitable experience.

WiFi is not considered that important to a hotel or conference center, especially when most people have access to the phone network. There’s a reason why many conferences deploy their own wifi infrastructure

What about in 2006?

Re: I told the flight attendant "the WiFi isn't working"

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Post by calamari4065 »

Reminds me of when our router failed at work. Every machine got booted off the network, except mine. Digging in, my machine somehow got assigned an IP that looked like our public facing IP, not a local address.

We replaced the router, but the problem turned out to actually be that a construction worker had accidentally cut our fiber line.

Absolutely no clue how my laptop got to the internet. It must have failed over to some other WiFi network or something

Re: I told the flight attendant "the WiFi isn't working"

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Post by D13Fd »

hrunt wrote: post #117

> Obviously, one solution to the problem is that DHCP leases on planes should be drastically shorter, like at 1 hour intervals. Secondly, the number of leases should be drastically increased. Why isn't the solution as simple as, "Reset the Internet at every flight turnover"? Once the plane lands and (almost) everyone deplanes, hit the button as another step in crew handover.

Between “crew has to remember to hit the button” and “everything just works,” I have a strong preference for the second one.

Re: I told the flight attendant "the WiFi isn't working"

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Post by RecycledEle »

linsomniac wrote: post #27

This reminds me of a conference, attendees were having sporadic problems with accessing the Internet and eventually I was able to capture a trace of the problem: when the main lease network filled up, it started allocating IPs from another block, but with the same gateway. I got a lease for something like 10.1.1.69/24 with a gateway address of 192.168.1.1. I went to the support person and she offered to reset the WiF…

I did tech support for a database conference at the Adams Mark around 2000.

That was the biggest fluster cluck I've ever seen.

The hotel sabotaged the DSL line that provides Internet access until thousands of dollars in previously undisclosed fees were paid.

Re: I told the flight attendant "the WiFi isn't working"

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Post by ThrowawayR2 »

raadore wrote: post #29
cheese_van wrote: post #19

Deep in the granite mountain where the internet Kill Switch is located, there is also the US national Internet Reset switch. What exactly, in this fictional universe, is the restoration flow if it is pressed?

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I'll point out again that the moderators have said that posts with machine generated content are not welcome on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33950747

Re: I told the flight attendant "the WiFi isn't working"

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Post by nunez »

yodon wrote: post #113
nunez wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was the reason why I bought a travel router/wifi repeater. You connect your corp laptop to the travel router then use your phone to log into the hotspot. Hotels are now using Meraki Air Marshal to block them on 2.4Ghz networks though

I wasn't familiar with Air Marshall. I understand it complicates your work-around, but I'd probably pay extra to stay in a hotel that cared enough about security to deploy it

No, i think it's a great feature. Definitely increases security. I don't believe it works on 5GHz networks though.
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