----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jo Rhett" <jrh...@netconsonance.com>
> On Sep 21, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > And this is pretty much precisely why I'm hammering the nail; > > there's > > *lots* of stuff that could -- and properly should -- be technology > > assisted at the world's largest gathering of science fiction > > enthusiasts. > > No point in building fast access to nothing (related to the con) ;-) True 'nuff. > I'm not saying that's right, but it is what is. And don't forget that > right now hard SF is a pretty mean minority. The vast majority of > sci-fi fans are into steampunk and other alt history these days. (and > don't get me started about that) iPhones are not generally strapped to > their victorian outfits. Heh. > > Assuming you can get close enough -- which won't be geographically > > practical for ... oh, wait; you're envisioning 3G, not WLAN. Yeah, > > I suppose that might work... until you consider that I will, personally, > > be bringing both laptops, my tablet, and my phone, all of which want > > All of which can use LTE either natively or with a dongle. As I noted in another reply, there are both "having a dongle" and "having an account" problem with that which are generally not easy to solve for the duration of a Worldcon (only). > > to talk to the outside world. I would bet that I'm not all *that* > > unusual in that, at a Worldcon, based on some attendee conversations > > I've had at Anticipation and the much less well attended NASfic 10, > > ReConstruction. > > You aren't unusual, but you aren't the average by a long shot. Stipulated. > > 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. I don't know yet. > 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. Do FCC regs actually permit that, license-free-band be damned? > Try having a conversation with the hotel rep in charge of selling > convention space about these kind of technical bits about wifi > networks sometime. If you don't mind tearing your hair out at the > time. Or tearing it out later, after you've been assured that the > hotel will "make it all work" and then find that none of this > equipment is within their control. (they don't care, you're already > there and can't go anywhere else) Well, yeah, but I don't think the contract is actually *signed* yet, and that I know which questions to ask, and what valid answers are, is precisely why I'm sticking my nose into it in the first place. > Sorry I'm being so negative on this topic. Got more than a few burnt > fingers on this one :) Understood. Thanks for throwing yourself manfully on the grenade. > > Can I get 12000 sessions on a single LTE tower? > > Yes. Can you get 12000 sessions through any single POE gateway? ;-) POE? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274
