Unfortunately it seems that this is a recurring problem (wireless availability) throughout the years of vmworld, that it seems vmware is unable to fix. 

With my laptop Most of the time, after ~5-10 minutes of wait to get on the network, then it drops off imeaditely afterwards, no go. 

I've reverted to bringing my laptop and sitting down in the registration room and plug in via cabled ethernet.  A quick speed-test says that it's speedy: ~7mb up / ~7mb down.  At least that's true internet speed, unlike the wireless.

Thanks anyways, guess I won't be (successfully) using the wireless at this show this year.

--Doug

Chris,

In the big room where the registration is, find the BOF sessions with the large white partitions (the place where they hold those informal sessions, and give out those little button pins) ... walk  around it and you'll see several mini-chairs and such.

Sit down at one of those chairs (max is 8 users per 'side' of the partition) if you can... and thats where the free WIRED ethernet lives.  I've logged into work several times via this method, and it's quite peppy and very reliable. 

Hopefully me posting this message didn't "let the cat out of the bag" .. meaning now I won't be able to find a seat since everyone who reads this will now be sitting down at all the available ports

At least I hope I helped ...

Doug