Re: Internet connection at the residence
William Stein
eder<ed...@mathematik.uni-kl.de> wrote:
> Hi William,
>
> yes I am here already, I was here for the MEGA conference. In our
> shared room there was only 1 LAN connection. I have just asked the
> stuff, they have enough cabels, still the problem is that when more
> people are working inside one room only one will get access.
>
> Christian
Thanks for making sure there are enough cables at the Residencia.
Regarding there being only one ethernet port per room, I agree that this
will be a problem for rooms with two people in them, when one person
doesn't have an Apple computer (with an apple, it is trivial to setup a wireless
network to share ones ethernet connection). I don't have any solution
for this problem.
William
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:39 AM, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 8:19 AM, christian
>> eder<ed...@mathematik.uni-kl.de> wrote:
>>> Dear William,
>>>
>>> I do not know if all the participants of the Sage Days will stay at
>>> the residence Torre Girona here in Barcelona, but I think a lot of
>>> them will.
>>> I just wanted to ask if we should give them the information that at
>>> the residence one has internet access only via LAN. The residence
>>> borrows LAN cabels for a pawn of 5 euros, but I do not know if they
>>> have enough cabels here if 40 people want one each. Moreover, as far
>>> as I know, in the double rooms there is only 1 LAN connection, thus if
>>> two persons want to access the internet simultaneously they need a
>>> switch.
>>
>> Are you there already? CAn you simply ask them if they have enough
>> cables or not?
>> I would be surprised if they don't. The situation does sound
>> potentially very bad the
>> way you describe it above. I'm not sure what to do about it though.
>>
>>> I also can see a WLAN from the UPC but I do not know if we get access
>>> to this during the Sage Days.
>>
>> (1) There is a completely open wireless network at UPC that anybody
>> can access, but it only allows http -- no ssh.
>> (2) We requested they make a wireless account yesterday so that we can
>> use ssh as well.
>> (3) If (2) doesn't we could still just use one of the local conference
>> participant's accounts.
>>
>>>
>>> I just want to mention this as it could help improving the work flow
>>> at the Sage Days.
>>>
>>> Christian
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> William Stein
>> Associate Professor of Mathematics
>> University of Washington
>> http://wstein.org
>>
>
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William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org