Hi, Every year in July we have a fairly large, 3-day festival in town with over 100 vendors and over 300,000 visitors. I'm teaming up with a local non-profit that I'm involved with to try to provide Internet access to those vendors, as well as any of those 300,000 people with smartphones/PDAs who feel the need to get online. Essentially, the area I want to cover is in green on this map (plus the pier):
http://sailfest.org/images/page/sailfest2009_event_guide.gif For a sense of scale, those green sections are only about 400 feet long and are (mostly) flat and the buildings around them are made of brick. There will be tents and stands all along the street. This is one of the areas: http://sailfest.org/images/page/vendorarea_03.jpg If I put a Ubiquiti bullet in that intersection of the green area with an omnidirectional antenna, I have very little doubt that its signal will get wherever it needs to go, but will people's laptops and PDAs have a problem with connections at that range? Or should I put a repeater halfway down those streets, or even for this use case use a Mesh network design? Thanks in advance, Charles -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
