I whole heartedly agree on the land line front.
As for the network setup, the wireless setup @ MIT makes for easy
networking
all around. The only thing that we NEEDED the hard-wired network for was
the printer (which I no longer have access to). If we find another high
speed printer, chances are, it will need a wired network connection.
DB
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Purdy [mailto:smpurdy btinternet com]
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 16:20
To: palindrome cosmos phy tufts edu
Subject: Re: [Palindrome] mystery hunt rooms (warning, ridiculously
detailed)
After our experiences of the past two years, I would personally rank
phone jack above adjoining and defer to someone with a better grasp
of our network setup to clarify whether a wired net port is still
necessary. Cell phones have been notoriously inconsistent in the
past, and last year's direct phone line served as an enormous boon. I
would also add that while I have high hopes for Phys Plant's ability
to produce a quality Hunt, if there are problems with it, our phone
time will increase sharply. With Kappa Sig two years ago, this meant
a heavy cell phone burden, and I would prefer to place that on a land
line which isn't going to have reception, battery, etc. issues.
Scott
At 01:07 PM 12/8/2005, Carol A Meyers wrote:
Hello Mystery Hunters,
Thanks to those of you who sent congratulations. :) Our team rocks.
OK, here's the news on the mystery hunt rooms. Most of the rooms are
the same as last year, with the notable exception of the *two rooms we
had last year,* (26-204 and 26-210) which have been remodeled and are
completely different. Most notably, they no longer contain phone
jacks, there is no longer a door between them (though they are still
next to each other, of course), and they are supposed to have a wired
connection but I believe it is in a locked cabinet I couldn't get into.
On the plus side, the furniture is about a million times nicer; it's
modern moveable tables and chairs.
I consulted with Mike Korn (who has been helping this team with rooms
longer than me) and he prioritized the team's room preferences as
follows:
(1) some kind of internet access.
(2) When put together, sufficiently large for everyone on the team to
be there at the same time.
(3) Movable tables and chairs.
(4) Net drop.
(5) Adjoining.
(6) Phone jack.
(7) Good location, nice-looking, blackboard space, whatever else.
(1), (2), and (3) should be easy enough to get-- everywhere at MIT has
wireless now, and there are plenty of rooms of varying sizes. A lot of
places have (4), although our old rooms no longer do. (5) is pretty
rare; only a few rooms on campus satisfy this now. (6) is rare too,
but not as rare as (5). (7) I suppose depends on your opinion.
The only rooms on the list that satisfy *all* of these things are
4-145, 4-149, and 4-153, which are all three adjoining. I'm guessing
these will probably go to a bigger team, though, since they have the
capacity for tons of people.
(If you want to check out what rooms do and don't have, you can look
at:
http://student.mit.edu/roominv/roominv.cgi)
So we will probably have to settle without a thing or two. 4-261 and
4-265 have everything other than the door between and the phone jack,
so I think they make a good second choice. Our old rooms (26-204 and
26-210) would be a good choice if I would feel confident that we could
get in the magic locked cabinet, or if people don't feel as strongly
about having a net drop.
After that, the rooms on the third floor of building 26 are also
decent; none of them have a door between or phone jacks, but they do
have MIT cable, which I suppose is an added bonus occasionally.
Finally, there is 56-154, which has everything we want but it is only
one room. (Albeit, it is a room that seats 56 people.) I suspect that
people won't like this, but I figured I'd throw it out.
Anyway, all that babbling is to say that I think our preferences should
be:
1) - 2 out of 4-145, 4-149, 4-153
2) - 4-261 and 4-265
3) - 26-204 and 26-210 (our old rooms; I'll ask about the locked
cabinet)
4) - 26-3xx rooms
5) - 56-154
Let me know if you object to this, or if you have any other opinions.
I can register the team this weekend, once we get this sorted out.
Thanks!
Carol
P.S. If we wind up not having a phone jack, we can use my cell phone
(it has a 617 number). It is free after 9pm on Friday and on weekends,
and so we would just need to go a little easy before then. I have
Verizon, which works OK (though not wonderful) in most parts of campus.
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