Does your airport WiFi?

Ron Natalie wrote:
Dave Butler wrote:


On a related note: there was a thread here earlier about wireless
access at Oshkosh. IIRC the sad conclusion was that there was no
access very nearby.

The nearest WIFI's last year was a few of the neighboring hotels and
the Starbucks up the road. We spent the last night in the American
Suites or whatever it is (the one that has the LaSeurs catering hall
attached and it has WIFI).

Having an internet cafe on the field would sure be nice.
While it did not have WIFI, there was net access at the EAA members tent
last year with ethernet connections. They had a fair amount of trouble
witht he sat link, but it was there.

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:39:08 -0700, "Matt Barrow"
wrote:


"Nathan Young" wrote in message
.. .

An interesting problem, which I solved by moving.

And when the ashtrays full you buy a new car, right? :!~)

Yep. I also buy a new plane when the tanks run low!

I spent some time scouting for WiFi last year at Oshkosh with my Ipaq
PDA. There were several networks in each of the four conference halls
but none of them were publicly accessible. EAA apparently charges
exhibitors big bucks to access the networks. At the "member center"
there were a couple of rows of PCs set up for public web browsing. I
asked the hostess there about WiFi and she looked at me like I had two
heads.

-R

In a previous article, "Rob" said:
exhibitors big bucks to access the networks. At the "member center"
there were a couple of rows of PCs set up for public web browsing. I

Any chance of plugging your own laptop into their network? I don't like
typing in passwords on public terminals, because of people sticking
keystroke loggers on them. If I use my laptop, all my communications will
be using ssh and nobody can sniff them.


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Paul Tomblin wrote:
In a previous article, "Rob" said:

exhibitors big bucks to access the networks. At the "member center"
there were a couple of rows of PCs set up for public web browsing. I


Any chance of plugging your own laptop into their network? I don't like
typing in passwords on public terminals, because of people sticking
keystroke loggers on them. If I use my laptop, all my communications will
be using ssh and nobody can sniff them.

If I understood John Theune's post correctly, there were wired ethernet ports
available.

Roger wrote:

Good Gawd!
It cost me about $97 a month for 128K DSL. Another $90 some for a
dedicated IP at my provider, web hosting, and about a gig of storage.

Verizon just went up to $37.95/month. With Federal fees & taxes, it totals
$42.45. If you sign a contract for a year, they charge $29.95. I'm still
thinking about that.

The cable company is around $29 a month for 3 Mbs down and 256Kbs up.

We switched when Comcast passed $70/month. IIRC, they were charging $79 at the end.

George Patterson
There's plenty of room for all of God's creatures. Right next to the
mashed potatoes.

Juan Jimenez wrote:

Just pointing out that Airventure charges to get in is not a justification
for spending money on a WiFi infrastructure to be used just 2 weeks out of
the year.

For that short a timespan, sattelite might be the best way to go.

George Patterson
There's plenty of room for all of God's creatures. Right next to the
mashed potatoes.

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:36:22 -0400, "Juan Jimenez"
wrote:

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

Just bring your proposal and a basket of money in unmarked bills.

George Patterson Wrote:

For that short a timespan, sattelite might be the best way to go.

Can you get broadband service via satellite dish in an RV? Maybe we
could convince someone to put up a hotspot that way.

-R

On 28 Apr 2005 04:59:58 GMT, (Blanche Cohen)
wrote:

And just how much do you think Airventure grosses that week?

Let's see...how many visitor per day? Lowball it at 10K per day.
Assume half are EAA members at $20/day and the other half are
paying the $30. Times 6 days = 1.5M USD.

A real lowball! How about the "camping" fees. If 70% are members,
10K relates to 450 people a day. Let's assume that everyone is a
member and stays 1 day. 200,000 X 20 = 4,000,000. My guess is that
it's around $15 million in admission, camping and the rest. A friend
exhibits, or did exhibit, and was paying $2400 for a 10 foot booth, or
whatever the smallest was, inside. Had to be there and manned the
entire time. How many booths are there and what are the sizes? then
there's the outdoor vendors, the split from the junk sale, the
exorbitant prices the food vendors must pay and everything else.
Makes a fine living for the little pober boy. And to top it all off,
all of those fine people working the event are volunteers. God bless
them, but I wouldn't do that for free for that organization if my life
depended on it. If they paid me $1.00 a day, it would be different.

Now about those exhibitors...and sponsors, etc. Every single one of
them pays a substantial fee. Don't know what the fee/sq ft is but
I've been involved with very large technical trade shows over the
years and it aint cheap. I'd make a WAG and say that more than
$25M comes in from the exhibit fees.