On Mar 14, 2012, at 19:23 , ext Thiago Macieira wrote: > > Oh, right. I had forgotten that little detail. Usually, the venue wants to > organise the networking infrastructure and they do underestimate us, even if > the organisers knew fully well it wasn't enough. > > For example, at UDS, the Canonical people insist on running the network by > themselves. The venue isn't selected unless they get that. Not to mention > they > need to run a DNS server and thus need special DHCP settings.
On a related note: We won't be running the network by ourselves, but we will make sure an engineer will always been on site to help out. We will also ensure that this service is flexible enough to allow for some extras (e.g. not the standard class C network configuration, etc). I am aware that the default configuration will not be good enough, but I will look at their AP technology and configuration and compare them with our figures from last year. Typically, locations try to calm you down by insisting that they have "professional infrastructure", ignoring the that the best wifi infra that money can buy will obey the laws of physics and pack up (hence the bad wifi during registration last year, there is simply no way two APs can handle 300 devices, especially because not many used the 5 Ghz frequencies in the beginning). We had all AP stats graphed out by mrtg/munin and apart from that single situation, the access points were almost bored. I'll also ask them to beam up the connection to 50 MBit/s, which they said they could do. Last time, 50 MBit/s downstream was fine, we only had one peak when the android workshop members all downloaded the non-mirrorable Android SDK. As for speeding up such things, I think we will provide desk switches in the meeting rooms and an on-site git- and http mirror again for the most important mirrors/packages. That worked pretty well last year thanks to some generous 3rd party sponsoring (hardware + domain). Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
