Sandra, The Internet in the Intercontinental hotel will indeed be "joined" to the IETF meeting network as usual. Speaking from personal experience, I have always found Internet access in Japanese hotels to be quite excellent even without these upgrades by our NOC team. Ole > This is always high on my list of reasons to try to stay at the > conference hotel, also. > > But note that this time, the conference is not at the > InterContinental “Headquarter Hotel", it is at the attached > conference center. > > Can anyone speak to whether the InterContinental's infrastructure is > going to see the upgrade from the IETF infrastructure usually > offered to the conference hotel? > > If the big pipe goes to the conference center only, then the > InterContinental ’s infrastructure may suffer from the same problems > the Maastricht’s did for similar reasons. > > —Sandy >