Tim told us his vision of the perfect „Nerd Hotel“ of today. And I totally agree with him. Everytime when I am in a hotel it’s just pain-in-the-ass to get internet access and even more painfull to get enough outlets.
He made a list what the perfect “Nerd Hotel” would at least need to qualify as one:
- free Internet access
- enough ports (RJ45/power) in a room this means:
- at least one port per desk/bed
- at least one three power outlets per desk/bed
- at least one port per desk/bed
- 1 notebook desk for inbed-use (per bed)
- a minium of 2Mbit downlink speed for the Internet access and not less than 50% uplink speed
- free 802.11b wireless LAN everywhere
- DHCP in the LAN and please no strange security behaviour…it will certainly get “fixed” by the nerds
- no port filtering/filtering at all
- 99,9 percent network reliability (power and internet uplink)
- no NAT for IPv4 if possible
- IPv6 would be fantastic
- internal gigabit network/fast in-house network
- every ethernet port is a switch-port (to prevent sniffing)
- DVD/CD first-aid kits at reception
I’m sure that we’ll find several more – So feel free to comment this article and tell us!
Source: http://weblogs.digital.udk-berlin.de/tim/archives/002356.html