[THIN] Re: Need Advice - Users connecting from hotel doubling as office
- From: "Greg Reese" <gareese@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:43:50 +1200
I had to setup an office for an extended time at a hotel once. I asked
nicely and they allowed us to put a watchguard in their comm room on their
inbound public internet. They then gave us a small conference room to use
that had a network drop in it that pulgged into the watchguard. We ran a
vpn back to the home office and put a switch on the conference room.
I would ask to speak to their IT staff and see if they can do something for
you off their business network instead of their guest network. Or offer to
pay for your own DSL to their location. I have been able to talk places
into that too. If you are going to be there that long, you are spending
enough money to demand the special treatment. They obvously have copper to
the rooms so from there is no technical reason you can't get a clean
signal. it may just take some work.
when my company did it, we were spending 1.8 mil a MONTH between two
hotels. They were very accomdating to us.
Greg
On 3/23/06, Peterson David <DPETERSO@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We have a team of users connecting to Citrix from a hotel in West Virginia
> that they are using as an office, they will be there for about a month, but
> could be back there several more times for a month at a time. They are
> experiencing problems with Citrix being slow, or disconnecting. I believe it
> is 98% or more on the hotel end as several times they called me that Citrix
> is down, but they can't get to Google either. The hotel doesn't have the
> greatest infrastructure, they have 31 Linksys 802.11g access points on the
> first and third floor of a hotel with about 200 rooms, no true wired
> connection is available. The pipe to the Internet is just 3 meg download,
> 384 upload.
>
> The head user in this location sent a message to our Managing Partner
> about how unreliable Citrix is. Fortunately, the Managing Partner uses
> Citrix extensively, and hasn't had a problem but I'm trying to do anything I
> can. The big bottleneck obviously is the hotel's Internet connection, my
> connection at home is better. Does anyone have any suggestions on how we
> might be able to get them a better experience? I'm looking into something
> like T-Mobile's PC cards, and we're seeing if there is office space we can
> rent, but apparently there isn't much available.
>
> We are on PS 4 Advanced on Windows 2000, soon will be switching to a
> Opteron 285 box running 2003.
>
>
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