Wi-Fi at OSH

"Mike Adams" wrote:

So, I'm curious how this new service worked out. Was it free? How was the
access
from the North 40?

It was free. Access from where we were on the N40, approx. due south of the
Hilton was pretty good. The Hilton's wifi was usable, too.

I wasn't there this year, but can see that this would be very
handy for email and weather briefings.

Extremely.

TAFs, METARs and radar being available to everyone camped around us was much
appreciated.

--
Dan
T-182T at BFM

"Dan Luke" wrote in
:

It was free. Access from where we were on the N40, approx. due south
of the Hilton was pretty good. The Hilton's wifi was usable, too.

I wasn't there this year, but can see that this would be very
handy for email and weather briefings.

Extremely.

TAFs, METARs and radar being available to everyone camped around us
was much appreciated.

Sounds pretty good. I had an interesting experience last year which maybe
had some small influence. I was walking down the road in the North 40, on
my way to the registration building, when I was offered a ride by a guy,
and it turns out he was a full time EAA staffer and asked me what I would
think about wi-fi at Oshkosh. He said they were planning for it, and were
trying to evaluate capacity and services and whether to charge for it or
make it available for free. Their big concern with a free service was
that it would be overwhelmed with too many users, and it would be hard to
provide good service. OTOH, a paid service would be easier to control and
maybe easier to provide good service. I recall offering the opinion that
free wi-fi is almost an industry expectation anymore - from hotels to
airports it's everywhere. It's cool to see that they've made some
progress on this.

Mike

Interesting. Free doesn't have to mean uncontrolled. The same software that
handles pay-for-use can also be used to throttle free access.

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Travis
Lake N3094P
PWK
"Mike Adams" wrote in message
.. .
"Dan Luke" wrote in
:

It was free. Access from where we were on the N40, approx. due south
of the Hilton was pretty good. The Hilton's wifi was usable, too.

I wasn't there this year, but can see that this would be very
handy for email and weather briefings.

Extremely.

TAFs, METARs and radar being available to everyone camped around us
was much appreciated.

Sounds pretty good. I had an interesting experience last year which maybe
had some small influence. I was walking down the road in the North 40, on
my way to the registration building, when I was offered a ride by a guy,
and it turns out he was a full time EAA staffer and asked me what I would
think about wi-fi at Oshkosh. He said they were planning for it, and were
trying to evaluate capacity and services and whether to charge for it or
make it available for free. Their big concern with a free service was
that it would be overwhelmed with too many users, and it would be hard to
provide good service. OTOH, a paid service would be easier to control and
maybe easier to provide good service. I recall offering the opinion that
free wi-fi is almost an industry expectation anymore - from hotels to
airports it's everywhere. It's cool to see that they've made some
progress on this.

Mike

Jay Honeck wrote:

http://airventure.org/2007/planning/...i_hotspots.jpg

I mapped them with Ministumbler in my PocketPC, there were far more
available than what was shown...

Speaking of wi-fi and lugging laptops...check out the tablet Nokia
770, now at buy.com
http://www.buy.com/prod/nokia-770-in...204081472.html

I have one from Woot! and it's great for traveling. Load
gizmo-project, a VOIP service like Skype, and you can even make free
or cheap international phone calls.
--
"I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the
Iraqis had nuclear weapons." --Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, June
24, 2003

Speaking of wi-fi and lugging laptops...check out the tablet Nokia
770, now at buy.comhttp://www.buy.com/prod/nokia-770-internet-tablet-internet-tablet-200...

That's pretty slick. Heck, at that price, we could put one in every
suite...

I'd want a keyboard for my personal use, though...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Bob Fry" wrote in message ...
Speaking of wi-fi and lugging laptops...check out the tablet Nokia
770, now at buy.com
http://www.buy.com/prod/nokia-770-in...204081472.html

I have one from Woot! and it's great for traveling. Load
gizmo-project, a VOIP service like Skype, and you can even make free
or cheap international phone calls.
--


Any way it could do GPS?

"Blueskies" == Blueskies writes:
Speaking of wi-fi and lugging laptops...check out the tablet
Nokia 770, now at buy.com
http://www.buy.com/prod/nokia-770-in...204081472.html

I have one from Woot! and it's great for traveling. Load
gizmo-project, a VOIP service like Skype, and you can even make
free or cheap international phone calls. --


Blueskies Any way it could do GPS?

Yes. You need a Bluetooth GPS receiver and some extra, free BT drivers
from the Nokia 770 software site. The catch is the mapping program.
The 770 is Linux, so there probably is not an aviation oriented map
for it.

--
You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have
nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars

"Blueskies" wrote:

Any way it could do GPS?

"Maemo mapper is a great tool for the people who get lost and it pairs
with most std BT-GPS receivers. A 2GB RS-MMC card(now compatible) can be
used to store maps and other data(music/videos)."

Mapping Software - Free
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/maemo-mapper

BlueTooth GPS - $38 + Shipping
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?inv...T-BT-5&cat=GPS

1 Gig RS-MMC - $21.85 with Free Shipping
http://www.oempcworld.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?
Screen=PROD&Product_Code=DV-RS-MMC1024
or http://tinyurl.com/2u5x9o


On a side note, I prefer Skype over Gizmo Project for VOIP though:
http://www.skype.com/intl/en/download/skype/linux

I dunno if its compatible...

"DT" == Darrel Toepfer writes:

DT On a side note, I prefer Skype over Gizmo Project for VOIP
DT though: http://www.skype.com/intl/en/download/skype/linux

DT I dunno if its compatible...

Only for Nokia's N800, the model supplanting the 770. Though it's
possible the 770 may also enjoy Skype with a new OS which may come out
later this year.
--
When discovered by his wife, kissing the maid, Groucho said "I was
just whispering in her mouth"
Groucho Marx