congested network and much eventful miniconfs

After less-than-excellent but completely free breakfast at 8am, we finally got kicked out of the room at 10am by cleaning staff. network-wise, that was good old day, as when I arrived link and hustle for laptop adapter's outlet, i realized that ssh to VPN takes a full minute, and worse yet downloading mail takes for ever until i get timeout. When 400-500 geeks don't take advantage of a fine weather outside, university's rather robust network was still suffering congestion worse than highway 101 around 6pm.