I was joking originally but just Googled it, a lot of the used 4G frequency range is pretty close to the 2.4Ghz that has been used for wifi cantennas, looks like you can build something pretty easily.
Putting aside the massive privacy issues, and assuming it is used to monitor speeding; why put speed cameras on the statistically safest roads in the country?
Speed cameras (statistically again) have rarely managed to improve accident rates where deployed, so I'll look foward to seeing how they justify this one (no doubt it will stop terrorists..).
I run a LAN party in the UK thats been getting bigger for afew years (www.thebiggame.org) - we've had public liability insurance (protects against people killing themselves) since our event hit ~60 people attending, but what you're paying is covering us for a whole year (in which we run up to 4 events).
As for consoles, we did allow people to solely bring consoles for a while, but found nobody actually bothered. It seems console gamers don't want to sit and just play games for a whole weekend; however, the consoles make a great break from pc gaming, and are good for quick tournaments. We've usually got an xbox and ps2 connected up to a projector as well as ProjectorGames who have a pretty unique product, I'm not sure if they'll travel out to the US though:P
For advertising, the best is word of mouth, but before we got a bigger following posting at schools/colleges/universities gave us great success - We also got an interview on local radio, as the event can be passed off as a local community type affair.
Sponsors do seem to only look for a proven record and shear numbers of attendees, so make sure you've got a good record of past events on the site. You might want to target local firms to start with, these will benefit from the targeted advertising your LAN will offer, as the small (comparatively) attendance of your LAN could mean a large increase in customers for them.
The main trend with LANs seems to be they're getting more popular, but also, the big ones tend to become really corporate, so maybe the niche is not to sell out?:)
the 3 devices networking devices rule is in regard to the ttl on packets expiring before they reach their destination due to the latency involved with switching.
also, APs are far more like hubs than switches, and the lack of ips can easily be solved by a little subnetting (or just using a different class of subnet, say.. a or b..) - alot of routers will allow you to specify the dhcp scope anyway.
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I was joking originally but just Googled it, a lot of the used 4G frequency range is pretty close to the 2.4Ghz that has been used for wifi cantennas, looks like you can build something pretty easily.
Exactly, Pringles cost way less than $30
Putting aside the massive privacy issues, and assuming it is used to monitor speeding; why put speed cameras on the statistically safest roads in the country? Speed cameras (statistically again) have rarely managed to improve accident rates where deployed, so I'll look foward to seeing how they justify this one (no doubt it will stop terrorists..).
I run a LAN party in the UK thats been getting bigger for afew years (www.thebiggame.org) - we've had public liability insurance (protects against people killing themselves) since our event hit ~60 people attending, but what you're paying is covering us for a whole year (in which we run up to 4 events).
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As for consoles, we did allow people to solely bring consoles for a while, but found nobody actually bothered. It seems console gamers don't want to sit and just play games for a whole weekend; however, the consoles make a great break from pc gaming, and are good for quick tournaments. We've usually got an xbox and ps2 connected up to a projector as well as ProjectorGames who have a pretty unique product, I'm not sure if they'll travel out to the US though
For advertising, the best is word of mouth, but before we got a bigger following posting at schools/colleges/universities gave us great success - We also got an interview on local radio, as the event can be passed off as a local community type affair.
Sponsors do seem to only look for a proven record and shear numbers of attendees, so make sure you've got a good record of past events on the site. You might want to target local firms to start with, these will benefit from the targeted advertising your LAN will offer, as the small (comparatively) attendance of your LAN could mean a large increase in customers for them.
The main trend with LANs seems to be they're getting more popular, but also, the big ones tend to become really corporate, so maybe the niche is not to sell out?
the 3 devices networking devices rule is in regard to the ttl on packets expiring before they reach their destination due to the latency involved with switching.
also, APs are far more like hubs than switches, and the lack of ips can easily be solved by a little subnetting (or just using a different class of subnet, say.. a or b..) - alot of routers will allow you to specify the dhcp scope anyway.
am i the only one thinking that this will be slow as crap? even if it was 802.11g, its still shared bandwidth, and with that many nodes..