On Sep 21, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> And this is pretty much precisely why I'm hammering the nail; there's 
> *lots* of stuff that could -- and properly should -- be technology 
> assisted at the world's largest gathering of science fiction enthusiasts.

No point in building fast access to nothing (related to the con) ;-)

I'm not saying that's right, but it is what is.  And don't forget that right 
now hard SF is a pretty mean minority. The vast majority of sci-fi fans are 
into steampunk and other alt history these days. (and don't get me started 
about that)  iPhones are not generally strapped to their victorian outfits.

> Assuming you can get close enough -- which won't be geographically 
> practical for ... oh, wait; you're envisioning 3G, not WLAN.  Yeah,
> I suppose that might work... until you consider that I will, personally,
> be bringing both laptops, my tablet, and my phone, all of which want 

All of which can use LTE either natively or with a dongle.

> to talk to the outside world.  I would bet that I'm not all *that* 
> unusual in that, at a Worldcon, based on some attendee conversations 
> I've had at Anticipation and the much less well attended NASfic 10, 
> ReConstruction.

You aren't unusual, but you aren't the average by a long shot.

> A lot of this, too, depends on what the concom negotiated with the
> property about wifi access already.

And this is where you're going to hit some very hard walls.  

One of which I forgot to mention. Many of the hotels (I believe all Hilton 
properties at this time) have sold the facilities space for their wifi network 
to another company. They CAN'T negotiate it with you, because they don't own it 
any more. And most of these wifi networks have stealth killers enabled, so that 
they spoof any other wifi zone they see and send back reject messages to the 
clients. So you can't run them side by side.

Try having a conversation with the hotel rep in charge of selling convention 
space about these kind of technical bits about wifi networks sometime. If you 
don't mind tearing your hair out at the time. Or tearing it out later, after 
you've been assured that the hotel will "make it all work" and then find that 
none of this equipment is within their control. (they don't care, you're 
already there and can't go anywhere else)

Sorry I'm being so negative on this topic. Got more than a few burnt fingers on 
this one :)

> Can I get 12000 sessions on a single LTE tower?

Yes.  Can you get 12000 sessions through any single POE gateway? ;-)

-- 
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet projects.



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