> Subject: Re: the economies of scale of a Worldcon, > From: Jo Rhett <jrh...@netconsonance.com> > Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:08:22 -0700 > > On Sep 21, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > > A lot of this, too, depends on what the concom negotiated with the > > property about wifi access already. > > And this is where you're going to hit some very hard walls. > > One of which I forgot to mention. Many of the hotels (I believe all > Hilton properties at this time) have sold the facilities space for their > wifi network to another company. They CAN'T negotiate it with you, > because they don't own it any more. And most of these wifi networks have > stealth killers enabled, so that they spoof any other wifi zone they see > and send back reject messages to the clients. So you can't run them side > by side.
This _is_ a "let's you and him fight" comment, but one might want to run an inquiry past the Friendly Candy Company, about the _legality_ of such 'killers' -- there are rules prorscribing _deliberate_/_intentional_ *active* "interference with radio communication" that do apply to 'unlicensed' spectrum.
