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Why PyCon 2010's Conference Wi-Fi Didn't Melt Down

Posted by kdawson on from the five-point-two-is-where-it's-at dept.

jafo writes "There's been a lot of teeth gnashing going on recently about broken wireless at conferences. We just wrapped up PyCon 2010, with around 600 (out of 1,000) attendees simultaneously accessing the volunteer-run network, and response has been fairly positive. 2.4GHz (802.11b/g) continues to be problematic, but most users were on 5.2GHz (using 802.11n) and associating at 130mbps, with a 100mbps link to the net (though after the fact we found that 35mbps would have sufficed). My PyCon 2010 wrap-up reveals all the secrets of how we did it, including pretty bandwidth and user graphs."

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  1. Maybe nobody cared enough to have it melting?$ by Adolf+Hitroll · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nt

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  2. Py Con? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what dat?

  3. I want to illustrate "Offtopic" to that mod... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    who modded the parent as "Offtopic"

    Regardless of how much oil will drill for and even if every well is a gusher, the long term price trend for oil will be up. Even if supplies increase three fold, oil prices will continue to go up.

    Now, the zipperheads on AM talk radio will say "drill here! drill now!" but the fact is the demand part is increasing dramatically because of Asia. We would need to find 10 Saudi Arabias (230 billion barrels of reserves) to keep prices stable of the long term - 20 -50 years. Ain't gonna happen. ANWAR has only 12 billion barrels of estimated reserves - the optimistic estimate. AM Radio jockeys have been talking out of their ass (as usual) in saying there's as much oil up there as Saudi Arabia.

    That's offtopic.

    Criticizing about units isn't - moron.

    1. Re:I want to illustrate "Offtopic" to that mod... by Dishevel · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The guy is an idiot who either dose not know or dose not care about basic market forces. All he needs to know is Government is Good. Companies are Bad and he is right.

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