Actually, there were 500 - 700 folks in the ballroom for a convention - only 250 or so brought their laptops.
I was tasked with allowing hundreds of users to download a PDF up to 6MB in size within 5 minutes of the start of each presentation.
The theory at first was that users would download the PDFs and use Acrobat reader to add their own notes. Ultimately, everyone used the wifi for email, and got all the PDFs at the end of the meeting on a thumb drive (or after the meeting on the internets).
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Actually, there were 500 - 700 folks in the ballroom for a convention - only 250 or so brought their laptops.
I was tasked with allowing hundreds of users to download a PDF up to 6MB in size within 5 minutes of the start of each presentation.
The theory at first was that users would download the PDFs and use Acrobat reader to add their own notes. Ultimately, everyone used the wifi for email, and got all the PDFs at the end of the meeting on a thumb drive (or after the meeting on the internets).
Xirrus 'Arrays' are designed for what you're doing. I've used 2 4-radio Xirrus arrays to serve 240 users in a single ballroom. http://store.xirrus.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=4