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Re: wifi for 600, alex

  • From: Carl Karsten
  • Date: Wed Feb 14 15:54:23 2007

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