[94941] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wifi for 600, alex
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Karsten)
Wed Feb 14 15:52:23 2007
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:49:53 -0600
From: Carl Karsten <carl@personnelware.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <45B6BA42.9040002@personnelware.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Carl Karsten wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> I just read over: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0302/ppt/joel.pdf because I
> am on the PyCon ( http://us.pycon.org ) team and last year the hotel
> supplied wifi for the 600 attendees was a disaster (they probably were
> not expecting every single one to have and use a laptop the whole
> time). Joel's pdf was for a conference in 2002 or 3, so I am hoping
> much has changed. But from what I have found, I think my hopes may be
> just a dream.
>
> Does anyone have any advice or URLs of more recent case studdies in
> supplying wifi for 600 laptop wielding geeks?
>
How was the wifi at the resent nanog meeting?
I have heard of some success stories 2nd hand. one 'trick' was to have
"separate networks" which I think meant unique SSID's. but like I said, 2nd
hand info, so about all I can say is supposedly 'something' was done.
Carl K
