On Thu, 2 Dec 2010 15:40:08 -0500, "Peter P Morrissey" <[email protected]> said: > We've talked about doing this in some cases. Do you paint over the lights > by any chance? > This came up in a case where we have AP's that might need to be installed > above a stage in a darkened theatre where a light show may or may not be > an appreciated enhancement to the performance.
We masked off the lights so we could use them for quick troubleshooting, but if necessary we can stick a strip of black electrician's tape over them. Ours are out of line-of-sight when looking at the stage, and blend in with the indicator LEDs for amplified speakers and other assorted electronics you find in a theater. One other thing to keep in mind for a theater is the more-crowded-than-usual RF space. There are wireless intercoms, assisted listening systems, and wireless stage mics. Fortunately (and surprisingly), none of the other gear in our theater is in the 2.4GHz or 5GHz space. Our assisted listening system is VHF, stage mics look to be UHF (either 460MHz or 900MHz, they've got log periodic antennas so I can't be sure), and the intercom system is a 1.9GHz DECT-based setup. We also provided another SSID just for the theater, as they use wireless PDAs for some lighting control/setup (and are looking into iPads for sound control) and we didn't want to have interference issues between their stand-alone AP and our system. -- Nick Kartsioukas Cuesta College Computer Services 805-546-3248 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
