On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Joerg Hoh wrote: > My experience of last guadec in Stuttgart: With about 300 people and video > streaming you can easily saturate a 10 mbit link to the internet; wireless > bandwith on the conference site usually isn't a problem (we had a 801.11b/g > network and noone complained); strongly consider a wired network as > backbone; also people like to connect themselves to this network if they > need bandwith to exchange between their laptops or if they don't have or > don't want to use a wifi card (yes, these people still exist).
Yes, having wired network with enough plugs available is a very good idea. > > There will also a computer room for people not carrying laptops. > > By "extension chords" do you mean plugs to switch a network cable? > > power chords to connect to the power network. This one is typically what determines where people can sit or sit not, in most of conferences, as not everybody has 5 hours of battery life, and a day is longer than 5 hours anyway. > J�rg Other than that, I don't think it's a problem in Europe (correct me if I'm wrong), but there was this problem last year in OLS where people have brought in a box of beers and the building security didn't quite like that. But then, it's Canada... So, would be a good idea to make sure what people can bring in and what not. --behdad http://behdad.org/ "Commandment Three says Do Not Kill, Amendment Two says Blood Will Spill" -- Dan Bern, "New American Language" _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
