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There are definitely companies have the kind of wifi infrastructure you are talking about who offer rentals to the people who organize these kinds of events. He

by aeleos 9y ago

There are definitely companies have the kind of wifi infrastructure you are talking about who offer rentals to the people who organize these kinds of events. Here is an example of one[0]. Wifi is often deployed at large events (PAX East for example) and it is more then feasible if the company is willing to pay the money for another company to do it. However, their server infrastructure is another question entirely. In today's age, making scale-able network services with very little downtime is not something that requires a dedicated networking team and hundreds of millions of dollars. I can't imagine they have very many good excuses to why they continue to allow this to happen other than that they don't value investment into their infrastructure enough (despite being a company completely dependent on the internet) The problems that they are experiencing are ones that have caused problems and had solutions created for them for years. The just seem to be unwilling to properly invest in the solutions to fix them, which are cheaper than ever (considering the complexity of the issues in the grand scheme of things). [0] https://tradeshowinternet.com/solutions/event-organizers https://tradeshowinternet.com/solutions/event-organizers

fencepost 9y ago
They may also be having load-balancer issues assuming they have front-end servers that are checking whether accounts are supposed to be directed to a specific set of servers. Assuming that they normally load-balance based on geographic location, the check for specialized server connections may be something that they never actually load-tested before after confirming that it worked for their staff in testing. I asked earlier and have asked again whether anyone at the location but not officially attending is having better luck connecting, that would help to narrow it down between carrier issues, Niantic server issues and Niantic server-for-this-event issues Edit: They expanded the area for special/regional spawns to 2 miles around Grant Park but still only for people who "checked in" at the park, and people who've left are reporting much better luck when they're away from the park. That may indicate that most of the issue was insufficient networking.

by aeleos 9y ago

fencepost 9y ago

They may also be having load-balancer issues assuming they have front-end servers that are checking whether accounts are supposed to be directed to a specific set of servers. Assuming that they normally load-balance based on geographic location, the check for specialized server connections may be something that they never actually load-tested before after confirming that it worked for their staff in testing. I asked earlier and have asked again whether anyone at the location but not officially attending is having better luck connecting, that would help to narrow it down between carrier issues, Niantic server issues and Niantic server-for-this-event issues Edit: They expanded the area for special/regional spawns to 2 miles around Grant Park but still only for people who "checked in" at the park, and people who've left are reporting much better luck when they're away from the park. That may indicate that most of the issue was insufficient networking.