[94942] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wifi for 600, alex
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Wed Feb 14 16:08:23 2007
In-Reply-To: <45D375F1.2040801@personnelware.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:04:52 -0500
To: Carl Karsten <carl@personnelware.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Feb 14, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Carl Karsten wrote:
>
> 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 thought it was quite good. I also think that the IETF wireless has
gotten its act together recently as well;
I suspect that Joel Jaeggli has had something to do with this.
Regards
Marshall
>
> 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
