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Temporary Wireless Service For An Outdoors Event?
SBECK writes "I've been asked to come up with an estimate of how much it would cost to provide wireless internet service for a small convention being held at a campground. That would entail renting or buying enough wireless access points to give coverage to the area and getting temporary satellite Internet service. Unfortunately, I've never done any of this, so I'm floundering. I'd love to get some pointers from anyone who has any experience setting up something like this. What ISP services provide temporary satellite service for something like this?"
Get the WiFi cyclist to park his bike and shout him a few beers.
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Camp Area... Wireless Access... what you really need is this.
for a small convention being held at a campground
Use their Trekie Communicators.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
How about I temporarily wire my foot up your ass!
Oh you mean Rectaltronics? They support the AnusBus and ButtStream RS-66 interfaces but not 802.11x.
...I will have a day full of free food...
;)
So you will network for food?
My cats ate my karma. They also wrote this comment.
Yes (well they pay me peanuts for what I do now so no difference there).
"...the radio client dewvices..."
Is that what happens to electronics the morning after a night of camping?
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Find the closest area with the bandwidth you need and hire a few bums to bolt directional access points to their heads, pointing at each other.
I've heard of people getting 25 miles with a clear line of sight.
You might want to put the bums up someplace high and provide them with their drink of choice for the duration of the event.
My first posting to slashdot and it reached a score of 5! I guess other thought the small inconvenience of the link not being clickable and the spelling mistake(s) massively outweighed the relevance / usfullness of the post. Lets not turn this into a flameboard, I work on the principle that if you cant say anything nice don't say anything at all ;-). Anyway I admit i'me not really a nerd, i've afraid I have a social life.
rain is your enemy when you are camping anyways :)
... to India. They can do anything, and do it much cheaper too.