Re: [Hampshire] MAC addresses for AGM and next meeting

Top Page

Reply to this message
Author: Ashwin
Date:  
To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] MAC addresses for AGM and next meeting
On 01/10/2010 16:33, Mark Johnson wrote:
> On Friday 01 Oct 2010 15:35:09 Ashwin wrote:
>>    Hello All,

>>
>> I just heard from the department sysadmins that they are insanely busy
>> dealing with the hundreds of new students who have descended on the
>> university this week to begin their courses. The addition of MAC
>> addresses is therefore a lower priority and there is a small chance that
>> it may not get done, which means everybody who attends the meet tomorrow
>> may not have internet access. I can personally add three guest MAC
>> addresses but just wanted to give everyone a heads up so that you can
>> bring along any 3G dongles or brush up on ways to share an internet
>> connection from the the 3 (fortunate :) ) guest addresses I can add myself.
>>
>> We do have the rooms, so in the worst case, there is still place to sit
>> and conduct the meeting/talks.
>>
> Will there still be wired connections available? I haven't been to a meeting
> in ages so I don't know what the situation is anymore.

There must be a few wired connections in the rooms, but I am not sure if
they require some sort of registration as well. For the last meeting I
believe most people used the wireless. (at least I did)

Ashwin