"Happy to see that things appear fixed for some. It's not at all fixed for me on 5, though the problem could be me," reported Adam Montville, apparently with Tripwire, an IT security software company. "I am unable to join either wireless network (timeouts on both) [referring to the hotel Wi-Fi network proper and the IETF Wi-Fi network configured over it]. Not (yet) critical as I have a LAN line in the room and the appropriate adapter."

For some, the changes appear to have made things worse. "Connectivity was fine on the 32 floor for me on Sunday and on Monday morning," wrote Pat Thaler, of Broadcom. "After the message about the stuff they had done to make things better on the hotel networks, it has been very variable. Network strength goes from very good to very low or disconnected without moving my laptop. It's varying all over the scale. Finally pulled out my AP to use the wired connection so my VPN would stay up."

In a reply, Elliott reported the hotel was having power problems with network equipment of all types above the 27th floor.

Another variable was U.S.-made clients connecting to a French network, as Elliot alerted attendees in an email on Wednesday. "A quick note--some laptops will not associate to channels that are not allowed in the country they were built for," he said. "For example, US Macs won't associate to channel 13. This is something that we've argued with Apple about--I believe it should be up to the AP to set the allowed channels and clients should be able to use them. I'm not worried about this in this case--folks should see other channels at acceptable signal strengths, and the Europeans, for example, will get a bit of a speed advantage."

Midweek "radical" changes