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I'd rather see NANOG/MERIT invest in like 15 or 20 base stations, rather than wasting the time/money on the cat5 cable and switches -- etc. A wireless card costs all of $200 these days... everyone could just get one. On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Joe Abley wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:23:19AM -0800, Lucy E. Lynch wrote: > > > Our big costs were US West curcuits into the hotel (6xT1 - we could have > > > gotten away with 4xT1) and cable - we had lenghts cut to fit the table > > > layout in the ballroom. We had switches & such on hand, and we "borrowed" > > > terminal room machines from one of the student labs - > > > > If these costs were negligible, how much would it have cost? > > > > (assuming, for example, an 802.11b shot from a hotel to an already- > > connected nearby building, donated transit, > > we actually tried to do a wireless run as a backup plan, but couldn't find > an open conduit, and the hotel balked at the thought of our wiring guys > coring 11 floors in order to get to the roof... > > I don't think nanog is quite ready to go wireless only in the meeting room > although cutting down on the wired infrastructure deployed is something > that's been worked on... > > > doing wireless-only in the > > conference and having some friendly vendor loan the machines for the > > terminal room). > > > > > > Joe > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Joel Jaeggli [email protected] > Academic User Services [email protected] > PGP Key Fingerprint: 1DE9 8FCA 51FB 4195 B42A 9C32 A30D 121E > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > It is clear that the arm of criticism cannot replace the criticism of > arms. Karl Marx -- Introduction to the critique of Hegel's Philosophy of > the right, 1843. > > >
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