Hi Folks,
I've been trying to learn about options for enabling conference presenters
to wirelessly hook into projectors and do various types of presentations,
including, but not limited to, PowerPoint slides and browser-based webinars.
I live in a fairly small community and there are no local experts on this
topic. I have been working with my usual vendor to try to understand how
this works but they aren't fully versed in this technology and I haven't
been able to get a definitive grasp on the issues.
If anyone here has experience with this stuff, your help would be very much
appreciated. Here's what I want to do:
1. We're converting a large space to a hotel-style conference center. It
will have movable walls to enable up to 5 different room configurations. I
want one projector for each of the three small rooms, one projector in a
different orientation for the full room, and the ability to gang two or
more projectors together to handle once source as needed.
2. I want to share my network's internet connection to any presenter,
whether they use my laptops OR bring their own.
3. I do NOT want to be dependent on supplying my own laptops because I
don't want to be in the position of guaranteeing that I will have every
possible version of PowerPoint available to presenters who bring in their
own slides. Naturally, this also means that the system has to work without
requiring any special connectivity software on a laptop beyond the standard
wireless driver.
4. These projectors will need to be ceiling mounted, so plugging a USB
stick into them is not practical. I have heard of projectors with remotes
into which you can plug in a USB stick and execute a PowerPoint
presentation without a laptop. I would like to enable this functionality if
possible **in the context of my other requirements**.
5. My best understanding of how this stuff has to work is that the
projectors have to be installed as network devices (like printers), and
there has to be a specialized WAP to connect laptops to projectors. It is
unclear to me whether I need one WAP per projector or there can be a
centralized "routing" (for lack of a better term) system for this. (I
cannot, as I understand it, install anything that the network would
recognize as a router because it would conflict with the existing domain
router and hose the network.) Naturally, laptops should not be forced to
join my network domain to be able to connect to a projector that is on the
network.
6. Somehow the wireless connection between laptop and projector has to both
share my network's internet connection with the laptop, and enable
communication with the projector. How can this be done?
I have visited websites for various equipment vendors but I have yet to
find a simple explanation of how the technology works and what is required
to meet my specific needs. I do not want to subject myself to sales pitches
for particular pieces of equipment, I want to understand how this
technology works in general and what my options are.
Please, educate me. How do I accomplish what I want, or is it even possible?
Thanks.
Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org
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