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Hotel wireless not up to IETF standards, so …

Opinion
Mar 29, 20121 min

... conference attendees take matters into their own hands

It’s far and away the most-read story on our site today, so I wanted to make sure that you don’t miss it.

Writes my Network World colleague John Cox:

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.

Not only should the hotel managers be thankful for all the technical help, they should be eternally grateful that it wasn’t a gathering of trial lawyers.