I'm on line this week through a Spectrum interactive account, who's web site tells me that they have won a contract to supply BAA at Heathrow Terminal 5 and that they have an exclusive 7 year deal at Travelodge, where I have been staying. It's not all been a bed of roses - quite apart from a major loss of service which I've briefly comment on elsewhere, I've had a couple of other issues that I thought I would comment on as clearly this is a supplier who intends to be around in a big way, and doesn't appear to be providing a transparent connection.

a) FTP. Upload connections are being lost at the start of transfers; the solutions I have been using is to use scp instead. Thus

[within ftp]
puts xz.tar

has been replaced by
[at command line]
scp xz.tar whc@www.wellho.net:/home/whc/httpdocs/pix/xz.tar

b) Skype - the Skype port appears to be blocked. Perhaps SpectrumInteractive have an arrangement with one of the telecoms companies that provides phone service to some Travelodge locations to do this - but here at Swavesey there are no phones in the rooms and even the public phone has been removed. I guess most of us have a mobile these days ....

c) I have two laptops here with me. On the good side, I'm able to log either of them in as it appears that my signup hasn't been restricted to a single specific mac address as I find with many other Wifi service suppliers. Slightly less positive (but to be expected, I suppose, for security reasons) I can't use the hotel's wireless hub to communicate between my 2 computers even though they're both on the same subnet. Solution - software that lets me computer to computer network, in effect setting up one of the machines as a wireless base station itself!
(written 2007-10-26 06:18:05)

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