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

But to where? What part of Wittman Field? WiFi will get you about a 300 ft
radius, maybe a bit more if you get fancy with the antennas. You then have
to deploy an infrastructure to which you can connect the access points. It
takes money, and all for 1 week's worth? Maybe 2 if you count exhibitors,
volunteers, etc.

"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. There's no DSL, that I
know of, or anything faster.

NorthNet http://www.ntd.net/internet.htm claims to offer DSL.

Juan Jimenez wrote:
But to where? What part of Wittman Field? WiFi will get you about a 300 ft
radius, maybe a bit more if you get fancy with the antennas. You then have
to deploy an infrastructure to which you can connect the access points. It
takes money, and all for 1 week's worth? Maybe 2 if you count exhibitors,
volunteers, etc.

"takes money".

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.

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.

OK, I'll agree that the show funds most of the rest of the year's
efforts, the museum, rent, utilities and the rest of the
EAA infrastructure.

But I'd speculate that the phone company could easily and happily
install a few T3's for 2 weeks at not more than $100K.

As an example, Universal Studios theme park near Orlando installs
an extra thousand (or more!) lines for the month of October to
support the Halloween attractions.

"Blanche Cohen" wrote in message
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And just how much do you think Airventure grosses that week?

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.

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.

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

"Rob" wrote in message
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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


Incoming, yes.
Outgoing (unless you want to spend big $$$), you need a landline.

Jay

Jay Beckman wrote:
"Rob" wrote in message
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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



Incoming, yes.
Outgoing (unless you want to spend big $$$), you need a landline.

Why is that (not disputing, just ignorant)?

Anyway, I don't think anyone is proposing setting up a server on the hotspot.

George Patterson wrote:
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.

That's what I was thinking, too.

What if someone had DirecWay at home and just brought their dish and receiver
and set it up beside the showers in the N40?

In rec.aviation.owning Dave Butler wrote:
What if someone had DirecWay at home and just brought their dish and receiver
and set it up beside the showers in the N40?

Considering the "home" version of Direcway seems to be 500kbps download
and 50kbps upload, I'm not sure I'd want to share it with a bunch of
other people over a WiFi connection. It would probably be pretty slow.
In addition, the ping times are real long, so it often seems even slower
than the throughput would suggest.

--- Jay


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"Jay Masino" wrote in message
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Considering the "home" version of Direcway seems to be 500kbps download
and 50kbps upload, I'm not sure I'd want to share it with a bunch of
other people over a WiFi connection. It would probably be pretty slow.

It would be slow no matter how you share it.

In addition, the ping times are real long, so it often seems even slower
than the throughput would suggest.

Ping times shouldn't be more than about 500ms add-on. How many people are
really going to notice a half-second difference in response time?

I certainly would agree that you couldn't share a link that slow (500kpbs
down/50kbps up) with many people before it got completely congested. 10
people all downloading at the same time, and they all might as well be on
dial-up. But I don't see how ping times are an issue. It's not like people
are going to be playing Quake from the North 40.

Pete