On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Nicholas Tollervey <nt...@ntoll.org> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I have a question: given last years rather problematic wifi - will there be > some means of guaranteeing Internet connectivity for the speakers (I'd love > to do a "live" demo during one of my talks and in order to do that I'd need a > connection)? Perhaps a CAT5 lead for the sole use of speakers thus by-passing > wifi wobbles might be possible..?
a 3G USB dongle as backup i found, generally, worked well, despite warnings received about mobile phone connectivity being "extremely patchy" in the concrete-steel-laced building. i have two - one three.co.uk and one vodafone: the vodafone one doesn't have any credit on it but if you're stuck that's easily rectified. usbserial modprobe aliases are all that's required - unlike the newer usb dongles from huawei which deep joy of joys are registered as a usb memory stick when they power up, and require a USB message sent to them (for which there is even a debian package including a udev hotplug script... deep joy) in order to get them to flip over to usbserial. l. _______________________________________________ EuroPython 2010 - Birmingham, 17-24 July 2010 - http://www.europython2010.eu EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
