Tobias Brox wrote: > 2009/6/26 Geoff Bache <geoff.ba...@gmail.com>: > >> I'd really appreciate knowing as soon as possible whether wireless >> will be available >> in my tutorial (TextTest, in the CBSO on Sunday afternoon). I'd rather >> planned on >> participants being able to read online documentation, and there's always >> people who haven't installed the software beforehand as well... >> > > In my experience, it can be quite useful and not so difficult to > arrange some backup plans: > > 1) what you really need is probably just a working intranet. Some > laptops can be used as wifi access points, if one of the participants > can provide this you should be good. Alternatively there exists light > weight "travel routers", though maybe it's a bit short time now to > search for such a thing. Alternatively, "ordinary" access points are > cheap and can be borrowed or bought anywhere and should serve you > well. > > 2) GPRS/UMTS works almost anywhere. It should be sufficient that one > of the participants have a cheap UK subscription and the possibility > to use it from his own laptop or share it out. > We do have extra laptops, access points and some 3G cards. Possibly don't have the time to set things like a proxy server up.
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