When I arrived at the Mirage I was happy to hear they had broadband net access in the hotel. Upon settling in the room I was pleased to find a special laptop hookup with power, ethernet and modem connections. Looking under the desk, I saw that they used D-link wifi to ethernet bridges to distribute access. I could either plug in with a cable or use the wifi to connect to the net. Pretty advanced for a Vegas hotel.
I did have to sign up for access via the TV set and get a code number that allowed me in. A pain, but not the end of the world.
Yesterday, after dinner and drinks I finally got back to the room sometime around midnight. I tried to log on and for some reason I couldn’t get in. The DHCP wasn’t working right. I tried and tried and wrote off the failure to my state of intoxication. This morning, I tried agian with no luck.
Calling Guest Services, they told me that ‘the internet is down, we are trying to fix it’. I asked it was down last night and they said it was. Well, if you are going to provide net access in a hotel at $10 a pop, you better be able to fix it in less that 8 hours…
In other show news, there haven’t been any really new things announced. Apple has some serious deals with GVG, I heard Leitch bought Videotek, HP announced their work with Warner (which I knew about…), and not much else.
Gone are the days of Newtek and the Video Toaster where you couldn’t get within 100 feet of the booth. But that’s another story.
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Heh, I had hell with internet in my room at the Mandalay Bay while we were in Vegas. *IF* I could ever connect to the wifi I could get an address fine, but connecting to the wifi was a huge exercise in frustration. Not to mention the fact that the laptop I took has no, and I mean NO, battery. So the only place we could use it was on the table. But I think my room was a freakin’ dead zone anyways.
I had a similar problem in a hotel in Tucson – hotel with $10/day ‘net access, and it was down for a good 12 hours, from early evening to just before I checked out the next day. Instead of getting access to e-mail, I had to sit in the room and listen to my mom and her husband talk about absolutely nothing for almost 3 solid hours. Torture!
Mike, based on the lovely picture of a sandwich in your moblog, I assume you are, like me, a sandwich lover.
My Vegas lock of the year: Go have a “European” sandwich at Paris (in the Cafe restaurant). You won’t be disappointed!
I think all the crowds stopped coming to the Newtek booths after Kiki stopped doing demos.
Now you can’t get within 100′ of the Apple booth, how times have changed…