Went down it once about 2 years ago... We tried out an OTC wireless device, and a airprojector device. (airporjector was made by trilink)
Both devices did the same function, and worked exactly like the wired projectors, except wireless they acted like regular client devices. (The associated to the wireless AP as opposed to acting like AP's) they had many limitations, the major one being they only supported WEP. The second limitation was that both companies seem to have completely disappeared. We demo'd a device of each, and decided it wasn't worth pursuing. Later on we did a podium in every classroom, wired to a projector, and it has a VGA cable just for portable notebooks. We have a few professors that have been pursuing this a different way. They use http://classroompresenter.cs.washington.edu/ classroom presenter installed on the permanent computer in the classroom hooked up to the wired computer, and walk around with a tablet pc notating they're slides. Seems a little easier to support than an orphaned hardware device. On Jan 18, 2008 4:14 PM, Lee H Badman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We're seeing the new higher-end conference room projectors coming in with > wireless cards enabled and making a lot of noise. You need special console > software to use them in peer-to-peer fashion, and they have wireless NICs on > board that naturally don't have variable power, so they end up being a > roughly 35 mW dead-end rogue. To boot, no one is really using them yet, as > the need to use console software precludes "just anybody" from being able to > wirelessly connect to them. Would like to find the least cheesiest way to > actually let folks use these without hosing a all the nearby APs. > > > > Has anyone gone down this road, pray tell? > > > > > > Lee > > > > Lee H. Badman > > Wireless/Network Engineer > > Information Technology and Services > > Syracuse University > > 315 443-3003 > > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
