WiFi at AirVenture (was:Does your airport WiFi?)

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

"Dave Butler" wrote in message
news:1114630866.771623@sj-nntpcache-3...
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.

That distance is typically a maximum of 18,000 feet of copper from the
central office or remote terminal hosting the DSLAM.

That is not very far considering OSH airport itself is probably a 2
mile by 3 mile chunk of land.

-Nathan