"Dave Butler" wrote in message
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Juan Jimenez wrote:
The fastest connection you can get at AirVenture, because of its distance
from the nearest facility, appears to be ISDN.

I'm not sure there's no DSL, you could be right. DSL advertisers are
notorious liars. Also, there's satellite. If the bandwidth can't support
the demand, the number could be restricted to some arbitrary number of
simultaneous users, first-come first-served. Better than nothing.

If you think about it, the area where the show takes place is well separated
from the rest of civilization. For DSL to work you have to be a certain
distance from the closest telco facility, due to limitations of POTS wire.

There's no DSL, that I know of, or anything faster. ANN sets up WiFi but
encrypted for use by the staff and stringers. It would be ridiculously
easy to slow down an ISDN to a crawl if it was opened up.

ISDN is not a practical solution.

In order to handle the traffic for so many people at the show EAA would
probably have to temporarily setup multiple T-1's, and that costs a lot
of money for just one week of the show...

I'd be willing to pay for access if there were an on-field provider. I
suspect I'm not alone.

There is. If you can use a cellphone, you can probably use one of their
PCMCIA access cards and hook up that way. If you can rent cellphones, why
not the cards? There's a business opportunity for ya. Pitch it to EAA.

Juan