Hello, I have been researching event wifi and mesh networking (Meraki & Open-Mesh). Does anyone have experience setting up wifi for a densely packed room full of technical conference attendees? Could a mesh network survive in this situation?
It seems like 802.11 is ill suited for 500 live bloggers in a conference room. How is this accomplished? My basic understanding is that APs have 3 desired channels (1,6,&11). How does this scale? I have read of two high profile conferences with 1000+ technology focused attendees that had horrible wifi issues. (Techcrunch50 & LeWeb) LeWeb paid 100k for the event networking contract. Techcrunch replaced the wireless vendor after the 1st day failure. Are conferences full of technical people starting to exceed the limits of 802.11? Any links or personal experiences are appreciated. Thank you, Joe Christensen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
