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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I had a similar problem with, of all people, the IT Manager at an exclusive hotel, having requested a callback regarding an upcoming event for which we had been contracted to provide a technician and several PCs. I won't go into detail as the conversation lasted for quite some time, but I was hoping to confirm that it would be possible to provide a broadband connection in one room (which would be home to the conference office) and have another room patched to the main hall where we would need to network two 'show' machines to the 'speaker-ready' room. This is simple enough, but it is surprising how many hotels (and we are talking about the sort of places you need a mortgage to stay at) host conferences for organisations with sophisticated IT requirements, but have inadequate or improperly implemented systems and staff for such a purpose. Anyway, having eventually been obliged to explain each and every detail of the event brief, I was told by the polite but confused IT technician, "oh, yeah - I can make it so they can all see eachother.... I think." I got to meet their IT techie before the install, and it turned out that he was moonlighting as an IT manager whilst working at the same hotel as the Head Waiter. A pleasant enough chap, but with no idea whatsoever about the vastly expensive system installed throughout the hotel. His job went as far as phoning a company in Japan (JAPAN?!?) and they would enable individual rooms for broadband as and when needed from an office on the other side of the world. The poor fellow didn't know what the patch panels were used for, let alone what to do with them. Another technician and I ended up hijacking their patch room, and we took extra time during a stressful install to do the hotel's work. ___ Oh yeah - this happens all the time with so-called conference hotels. We usually just end-up trailing our own ludicrously long Cat5 cables from one end of the hotel to the other. It seems stupid that a multi-million pound conference centre/hotel should operate to such a shoddy standard that client's contractors have to run around with cable drums and endless supplies of gaffer-tape, installing their own temporary infrastructure. Maybe I've missed the point, but my life would be [i]so[/i] much easier if someone, somewhere, had put a little more thought into things before throwing huge amounts of money at them. The waste of resources is astounding. ==I don't believe it! [i]Somebody stole my sig!![/i]== [small](Edited by [internallink=21770]White Hawk[/internallink] on 10-13-2004 01:56)[/small] Loading...
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