wifi for 600, alex

Wed Feb 14 21:04:52 UTC 2007

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