Lan Barnes wrote:
We could always volunteer to administer wireless in the convention area for free to get a few generic passes. They could only say no, worst case.
My experience with hotel wireless is it is: 1. brain dead and Linux hostile
...Which is always fun. It's my goal to make public wifi easy to use and platform-agnostic.
2. pay-to-play and _very_ expensive
"whaa? $6/hour? you've gotta be kidding me!" -- free is always a much better number.
3. spotty coverage, as in "that end of the main lobby"
I've designed my system with these thoughts in mind -- i've done the research and gotten the proper antennae and equipment to do it right.
Several conventions/shows I've been to had their own wireless in the convention area. So the hotels at least tolerate it.
From what I've seen, most encourage it. That way, the hotel isn't liable for lusers on their network, or, the liability falls on those who provide the wireless connection (ie: us). As long as we have the proper legalese to shuff it off on the user, it shouldn't be too big an issue for us to do this.
The main thing will be, of course, working out the logistics with the hotel engineers.
-Kelsey -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
